Reed Beall and Randall Kuhn of the University of Denver, US describe in this week's PLoS Medicine their findings from an analysis of use of compulsory licenses for pharmaceutical products by World ...

Compulsory pharmaceutical licensing is little more than government theft by Elizabeth Wright, opinion contributor - 08/04/18 7:05 PM ET ...

Article 31 (f) states that compulsory licenses should be predominantly used for the purposes of domestic use. However, several developing countries do not have the capacities to produce pharmaceutical ...

Gilead announced a deal to get its groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to lower income countries. Notably, the deal does not ...

Pharma industry bodies have slammed a proposal by the European Commission to set up a compulsory licensing (CL) framework for medicines in emergency situations, claiming there is no need for the move.

The compulsory license mechanism is broken and will not bring drug access to the world's poorest nations. It's time to consider another option—a tax levied on patents—to fund drugs for ...

Compulsory licensing became popular in global health in the early 2000s to ensure low-priced HIV medicines could circulate in global trade. Since 2020, initiatives for compulsory licensing ...

Threatening compulsory licensing could embarrass Big Pharma into cutting a deal with developing countries to boost supplies, reduce prices or build manufacturing capacity in afflicted regions.

A s the novel coronavirus continues to spread, Ecuador has become the latest country in which lawmakers are looking to issue compulsory licenses for medicines and vaccines to combat Covid-19 and ...

Specifically, the authors investigated the impact of the 2001 Doha Declaration on trends in compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals. They highlight the need for further systematic evaluation of global ...

“Confrontational approaches such as compulsory licensing are time consuming, risky and an ultimately unsustainable way of addressing global health challenges. Voluntary licensing, by contrast ...