Medicines Patent Pool Calls For Equitable Access To Infectious Disease mAbs

Solutions Include Voluntary Licensing, Regulatory Collaboration, And More

In a joint proposal with its partners, the Medicines Patent Pool explores challenges in monoclonal antibody equity in low- and middle-income countries and provides actionable solutions to increase development and manufacturing.

Ethics in medical research: weight scale with microscope on one side and people on the other
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The Medicines Patent Pool continues its mission to increase access to medical products, especially for the treatment of infectious diseases, in low- and middle-income countries.

This time, the UN-backed organization has released a joint article with global health initiative Unitaid, the non-profit International AIDS Vaccine...

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