accesstomedicines.org - Private Patents and Public Health

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Millions of people around the world do not have access to the medicines they need to treat disease or alleviate suffering.

The HIV/AIDS crisis in the late 1990s brought access to medicines challenges to public attention, when millions of people in developing countries died from an illness for which medicines existed, but were not available or affordable.

The high price of HIV/AIDS medicines focused attention on the relationship between patent protection and high medicine prices.

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