Geneva, 3 October 2018.  The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and ViiV Healthcare - a global specialist company - signed an extension of their licensing agreement in July 2018, to further increase access to key antiretroviral dolutegravir (DTG) for adults living with HIV in Mongolia and Tunisia. This amendment allows generic manufacturers to supply low-cost quality-assured DTG and combinations in the two countries. DTG-based regimens have been recommended by the World Health Organization as the preferred first-line treatment for people living with HIV, including adults and adolescents as well as children for whom there is approved DTG dosing. Notably, TLD (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/lamivudine/dolutegravir) is a new convenient once-daily single-tablet regimen for adults and adolescents. DTG is also an important option in other lines of therapies. “The MPP has worked with long-standing partner ViiV Healthcare since 2014, when the initial licensing agreement was signed. But that was just a starting point”,...