TED Talks

Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

TV-PG
2012 • E133    Oct 1, 2012    15m
Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop — but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool.

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