Global Cancer Coalition Seeks To Increase Access To Medicines In LLMICs

Members Include Medicines Patent Pool, Teva And Generics Industry Body IGBA

The Union for International Cancer Control has established the Access to Oncology Medicines Coalition to facilitate access to cancer drugs in low and lower-middle-income countries.

Arm of a patient receiving chemotherapy
ATOM will support the implementation of “intensive coordinated capacity building activities” in up to 10 countries. • Source: Shutterstock

The Union for International Cancer Control and its partners, including the Medicines Patent Pool and International Generic and Biosimilar medicines Association as well as firms such as Teva, have announced the establishment of the Access to Oncology Medicines Coalition, a global partnership designed to facilitate access to essential cancer medicines in low- and lower-middle-income countries. The ATOM Coalition said it also aims to help these countries “develop the capacity for their proper use.”

MPP executive director Charles Gore said: “For us at MPP, it is so important that people everywhere have access to the essential medicines they need, with cancer treatments often being particularly unaffordable. But access is about so much more than just affordability

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