The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.

And this is how it works Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.

The patents on those drugs were held by a number of Western pharmaceutical companies that were not necessarily willing to make those patents available.

It isn't only the number of drugs that are patented.

That is something that the Medicines Patent Pool cannot do.

Ellen 't Hoen Pool medical patents, save lives

The company, Gilead, that holds the patents, has licensed the intellectual property to the Medicines Patent Pool.

Nelson is a member of the expert advisory group of the Medicines Patent Pool, and he told me not so long ago, Ellen, we rely in Kenya and in many other countries on the Medicines Patent Pool to make sure that new medicines also become available to us, that new medicines, without delay, become available to us.

In 2010, UNITAID established the Medicines Patent Pool for HIV.

And Tamiflu. You've probably heard of this drug, made by Hoffmann La Roche, patented drug.

Those obstacles take the form of patents that grant quasi monopolistic powers to the pharmaceutical companies that produce those medicines.

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They cannot justify developing new drugs unless they can expect to recoup their costs through sales.

If they target diseases that affect affluent people, or people living in countries with national health insurance, they will be able to patent any new drugs they discover. For the 20 years that the patent lasts, they will have a monopoly on the drug s sale and be able to command a high price.

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So you can imagine that if you are a generic company about to decide whether to invest in the development of this product, unless you know that the licenses to these patents are actually going to be available, you will probably choose to do something else.

To combat them, it suggests that developing countries be assisted in producing generic drugs for their domestic markets so as to ensure the wide availability and accessibility of such drugs (para.

There seems to be competition even in the procurement of some specialized items such as drugs and pharmaceuticals.

(e) Strengthening pharmaceutical policies and practices, including those applicable to generic drugs and intellectual property regimes, in order to further promote innovation and the development of domestic industries consistent with international law

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In the area of drug control, Jordan had adopted a national plan of action against narcotic drugs with the aim of eliminating drug use, reducing supply and facilitating treatment of addicts.

On May 1 this year, the drug was fully tax deducted, and all import tariffs for all 28 tax items of general taxable drugs, including anticancer drugs, and alkaloid drugs with anticancer effects, and Chinese patent medicines with actual imports, were adjusted to zero.

(d) Study on the resistance to anti malaria drugs in Kinshasa

Now we count on the willingness of drug companies to make that happen. We count on those companies that understand that it is in the interest, not only in the interest of the global good, but also in their own interest, to move from conflict to collaboration, and through the Medicines Patent Pool they can make that happen.

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(v) Promoting access to low cost and effective drugs and related pharmaceutical products

(c) Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East

Alternatively, in the case of pharmaceuticals and pesticides, which are frequently subject to compulsory registration procedures, the product may not have been submitted for registration.

Law of the Republic of Tajikistan on pharmaceuticals and on pharmaceutical operations (2001)

A pool of dedicated drug inspectors will be formed in the different countries with enhanced capacities to inspect activities relating to licit pharmaceuticals, thus reducing the risk of diversions.

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For American drug companies, this agreement extends the time period during which brand name pharmaceuticals have exclusive access to markets, postponing the entry of generic drugs and thus limiting competition. For Central Americans, the cost of drugs will soar, straining budgets and gutting health care.

The pool is already working today, two months later, with generic manufacturers to make sure that this product can go to market at low cost where and when it is needed. This is unprecedented.

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Our concern is with the physical and psychological health aspects of drug and substance abuse.

A separate US legal case has underscored one of the main dangers of patent driven monopoly power corruption. With prices far in excess of the cost of production, there are, for example, huge profits to be gained by persuading pharmacies, hospitals, or doctors to shift sales to your products.

1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs acting as the preparatory body for the special session of the General Assembly devoted to the fight against the illicit production, sale, demand, traffic and distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and related activities E 1997 48.

Protection against products harmful to health and the environment

At its 45th plenary meeting, on 23 July 1996, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the United Nations System wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control.

It can also be not for profit drug development agencies, for example.

438. Production of medicines from marine sources is an ongoing industry.

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They'd have been supplied by the hospital pharmacy.