In February 2013, the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a paediatric collaboration with ViiV Healthcare. The collaboration includes a licence on paediatric abacavir (ABC), part of the World Health Organization (WHO)-preferred treatment for children from three months to 10 years of age. The parties also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) detailing MPP and ViiV’s commitment to collaborate in other areas to improve HIV paediatric care.
With MPP and ViiV’s agreement, 118 countries, including those with the highest populations of children living with the virus, can benefit from low-cost ABC. In November 2014, MPP and ViiV Healthcare extended the licensing agreement to three more countries: Ukraine, Peru and Venezuela. The licence now includes at least 121 countries, covering 99.3% of children living with HIV in low and middle-income countries.
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Quality assured formulations from MPP generic partners: Abacavir oral solution 20mg/ml, Abacavir 60mg + lamivudine 30mg tablets
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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. Through its innovative business model, MPP partners with civil society, governments, international organisations, industry, patient groups, and other stakeholders to prioritise and license needed medicines and pool intellectual property to encourage generic manufacture and the development of new formulations.
To date, MPP has signed agreements with 22 patent holders for 13 HIV antiretrovirals, one HIV technology platform, three hepatitis C direct-acting antivirals, a tuberculosis treatment, a cancer treatment, four long-acting technologies, a post-partum haemorrhage medicine, three oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19 and 16 COVID-19 technologies.
MPP was founded by Unitaid, which continues to be MPP’s main funder. MPP’s work on access to essential medicines is also funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Government of Canada, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Government of Flanders. MPP’s activities in COVID-19 are undertaken with the financial support of the Japanese Government, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and SDC.