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Message from the Executive Director: Accelerating access to treatment for children with HIV must be a public health priority

On World AIDS Day & ahead of the Vatican City meeting on scaling up HIV diagnosis and treatment for children, Charles Gore calls for an accelerated access to treatment for children.

The Medicines Patent Pool signs licence with AbbVie to expand access to key hepatitis C treatment, glecaprevir/pibrentasvir

The licence will enable quality-assured manufacturers to develop and sell generic medicines containing G/P in low- and middle-income countries at affordable prices, enabling access to and treatment scale-up with the most effective pan-genotypic regimens.

The Medicines Patent Pool Presents New Five-Year Strategy For Improving Access To Priority Treatments In Developing Countries

Strategy and Related Feasibility Study Call for the Expansion of the MPP’s Mandate to Patented Medicines on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines

Exploring The Expansion Of The Medicines Patent Pool’s Mandate To Patented Essential Medicines

A Feasibility Study Of The Public Health Needs And Potential Impact

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The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is a United Nations-backed public health organisation working to increase access to, and facilitate the development of, life-saving medicines for low- and middle-income countries.

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MedsPaL

The Medicines Patents & Licences Database

The MPP’s patents and licences database, MedsPaL, is a resource that provides information on the intellectual property status of selected HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and other patented essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries.

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Transparency

All MPP licences are publicly available in their entirety on our website. This is unprecedented in the pharmaceutical field.

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MPP in Numbers

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9 patent holders with MPP signed agreements

17 million patient-years through MPP’s generic partners from January 2012 to December 2017

24 generic manufacturers and product developers sublicensed from the MPP

18 products licensed to the MPP

130+

130+ ongoing pharmaceutical development projects

87% to 91%

87% to 91% of people living with HIV in developing countries covered by the MPP adult licences

92 to 131

92 to 131 countries covered by MPP adults licences

553

553 million dollars saved, from January 2012 to December 2017

Latest News

03 December 2018

The Medicines Patent Pool gains new funding from The Wellcome Trust and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, for implementing expansion plans

Geneva, 3 December 2018: The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) has confirmed funding awards from two major agencies that will support its mandate expansion into patented essential medicines on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Essential Medicines List (EML) - and those with strong potential for future inclusion. The Wellcome Trust will grant 105,000 CHF and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will award 248,400.00 CHF. The MPP was founded in 2010 to increase access to, and facilitate the development of, life-saving medicines for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through an innovative approach to voluntary licensing and patent pooling. Initially the foundation worked with HIV, later expanding to hepatitis C and tuberculosis (TB). In 2016, the WHO recommended the expansion of the MPP to “all disease areas, and for all patented essential medicines on the WHO EML to be licensed into the Pool.” The MPP launched its new five-year strategy in May 2018, which included a feasibility study...

20 November 2018

Access to Medicine Index hails the Medicines Patent Pool as key driver of access-oriented licensing of pharmaceuticals

Geneva, 20 November 2018 – The Access to Medicine Index (ATM) has today issued its biennial report giving high-ranking scores in its Patents and Licensing section to those companies that have negotiated licences for antiretrovirals and hepatitis C medicines through the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). The report acknowledges the role of the MPP as “the central independent driver of access-oriented licensing - and that licences agreed via the MPP include the majority of the access-oriented terms and conditions looked for by the Index.” The ATM index independently assesses the top 20 pharmaceutical companies on their efforts to improve access to medicines in developing countries, including how companies manage their patents and licensing responsibly and with transparency. The top four places in the Patents and Licensing chapter go to GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK); Merck & Co., Inc.; Gilead Sciences Inc.; and Bristol-Myers Squibb – all licensing partners of the MPP. “This is an excellent and important report f...

12 November 2018

The Medicines Patent Pool signs licence with AbbVie to expand access to key hepatitis C treatment, glecaprevir/pibrentasvir

Important collaboration will ensure affordable hepatitis C treatment options in low- and middle-income countries. San Francisco, 12 November 2018 – The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) has today announced a new, royalty-free licence agreement with AbbVie for glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P) – a World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended treatment for people living with chronic hepatitis C (HCV). The licence will enable quality-assured manufacturers to develop and sell generic medicines containing G/P in 99 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and territories at affordable prices, enabling access to and treatment scale-up with the most effective pan-genotypic regimens. The agreement was launched at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) The Liver Meeting 2018 in San Francisco. “G/P is a priority therapy for licensing for the MPP, so this agreement with AbbVie is very good news for public health,” said Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, Chair of the MPP Governance Board. “It is a really import...

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“The MPP model fits the Swiss approach to improving access because it promotes voluntary, collaborative solutions with the pharmaceutical industry for reducing prices of essential patented products, while ensuring the quality of those medicines, and protect...”

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