Compulsory patent licensing and local drug manufacturing capacity in Africa
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Compulsory patent licensing and local drug manufacturing capacity in Africa.
Africa has the highest disease burden in the world and continues to depend on pharmaceutical imports to meet public health needs. As Asian manufacturers of generic medicines begin to operate under a more protectionist intellectual property regime, their ability to manufacture medicines at prices that are affordable to poorer countries is becoming more circumscribed. The Doha Declaration on the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.13.128413