This portrait of the global debate over patent law and access to essential medicines focuses
on public health concerns about HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, the SARS virus, influenza …

COVID-19 has had devastating effects worldwide, and vaccines have become the most
efficient solution to address the current pandemic situation thus far. After COVID-19 vaccines …

Governments of developing countries can be in a vulnerable position with respect to patent
protected drugs supplied by foreign firms, if the technology cannot be licensed or …

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the scholarly approach to examine the issues at the
intersection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and human rights (HRs) and ways to …

This scoping review attempts to delineate the level of research interest in HPV vaccine and
cervical cancer policy and/or policymaking process in sub-Saharan Africa. Google Scholar …

Background Recently, interest in compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals has been
growing regardless of a country's income-level. We aim to investigate the use of compulsory …

Despite living in a'globalized'world where advances in medicine, technology and science
come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we …

The principal purpose of this book is to tell the story of a medicine's journey through the
regulatory system in the UK, from defining what counts as a medicine, through clinical trials …

Patents provide monopoly rights to patent owners to manufacture, sell, and import the
product resulting in overpricing of the patented products. Without patents, the inventors and …

Drawing on global value chain analysis, this article discusses the possibilities for upgrading
in a domestically oriented import-dependent industry. The pharmaceutical industry in …