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S4 Ep7: Patent pools for generic drugs
Feb 19, 2021
30:28
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Diffusion of new drugs is painfully slow in low-income countries. Mark Schankerman tells Tim Phillips about how patent pools accelerate the process, and how we could still do a better job of licensing life-saving medicines.