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A win-win solution?: A critical analysis of tiered pricing to improve access to medicines in developing countries [1]

Tiered pricing - the concept of selling drugs and vaccines in developing countries at prices systematically lower than in industrialized countries - has received widespread support from industry, policymakers, civil society, and academics as a way to improve access to medicines for the poor. We carried out case studies based on a review of international drug price developments for antiretrovirals, artemisinin combination therapies, drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines, liposomal amphotericin B (for visceral leishmaniasis), and pneumococcal vaccines.

Publication Date: 
12/10/2011
Suerie Moon [2], Elodie Jambert [3], Michelle Childs & et al [4]
Globalization and Health [5]
7
39
1-11
Tags:
Drugs [6], Drug Industry [7], Patents [8], Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) [9], Developing Countries [10], AIDS [11], Malaria [12], Tuberculosis [13], Pneumonia [14], India [15], WHO [16]
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