More Pressure On Pharma: UN Report Backs Compulsory Licensing

Heavy-weight United Nations panel makes tough recommendations favoring compulsory licensing – an issue that has riled Big Pharma but has at least one industry proponent, Cipla's chair Yusuf Hamied, who talked to the Pink Sheet about the "excesses" of intellectual property rights.

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The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines has underscored the importance of compulsory licensing as a policy tool for governments to promote access to health technologies under specific circumstances.

The panel's report, made public on Sept. 14, touches on a range of issues including delinking the costs...

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