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Can Patent Pools Get More AIDS Drugs to Patients?

David de Ferranti | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Intellectual Property, Patents, HIV/AIDS, HIV Drugs, AIDS Drugs, Aids Drug Patents, Arvs, Antiretroviral Drugs, Impact News
David de Ferranti

Although many of the ARVs in widespread use in low- and middle-income countries now are already off-patent, the new and better drugs that are still needed would be subject to patent protection.

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In Cameroon with UNITAID: Keeping HIV Patients Alive and Well

Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Drugs, Hiv, Anti-Retrovirals, UNITAID Patent Pool, Arvs, HIV/AIDS Africa, Unitaid, World News
Mark Leon Goldberg

Drug companies who participate in the patent pool hand over their patents to UNITAID, which makes those patents available to generic drug manufacturers. Part of the deal is that the generic drugs can only be sold in lower-income countries.

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A Call For Public-Private Partnerships For HIV Prevention

Ward Cates | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS Africa, AIDs Epidemic, Antiretroviral Drugs, Public-Private Partnerships, Healthy Living Health News, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthy Living Body, Aids Research, Arvs, HIV/AIDS Research, Healthy Living News
Ward Cates

As the world celebrates the latest scientific findings in the fight against AIDS/HIV, we are reminded that the public-private partnership involves being able to both "do good" and also "do well".

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30 Years Later, Where Do We Stand With HIV/AIDS?

Ray Suarez | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Anti-Retroviral, Sexual Health, Healthy Living Body, AIDS Media, Arvs, HIV/AIDS Progress, Latinos and AIDS, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Glaser, Condom Use, Hiv Aids 30 Years, Healthy Living News
Ray Suarez

As the years passed, the picture began to fill in: a virus, that came to be called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, caused the disease.

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AIDS Will Be Conquered

Chris Norwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Therapeutic Vaccines, Immune Based Therapy, Health Care, International AIDS Conference, Health, New AIDS Treatment, Arvs, HIV Cure, World News
Chris Norwood

Yes, it's sad that despite the years of research and millions of dollars spent, there's no AIDS cure and there's no preventive vaccine; but saddest yet would be to ignore the real possibility for real control of AIDS in the foreseeable future.

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