Worldwide, there are enormous inequities in cancer control that cause poor outcomes among patients with cancer who live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). One of the biggest challenges that ...

We live in a world where progress and the public welfare are stymied by copyright and patent laws that grant extended exclusivity to the owners of intellectual property (“IP”). To pick just one ...

The use of so-called 'compulsory licenses' by developing countries to obtain cheaper drugs for HIV and AIDS by circumventing patents has not been the best strategy for achieving the lowest prices over ...

India's decision in March to grant its first-ever compulsory license, which allows a company to make and market a drug that the patent holder has not been able to make sufficiently affordable and ...

About the author: Ellen ‘t Hoen is the director of Medicines Law & Policy , a group of legal and policy experts offering advice to international organizations and governments. She is the founder and ...