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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

In order to reduce the price of patented pharmaceuticals and to make medicines more affordable in such cases, the special mechanism of compulsory licensing seems to be most common practice.

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.

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 ...

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 ...