GENEVA — A new international database was launched on April 4 aimed at giving public health organizations and other groups procuring medicines information on where patents exist on antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
The patent status database was developed by the Medicines Patent Pool, a voluntary patent licensing mechanism set up with the support of the government-backed organization UNITAID, which seeks to improve access to treatments for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in low-income countries, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The database contains a searchable listing of patents on 23 antiretroviral medicines — including some ...
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