Paper for Monday: Sustaining access to antiretroviral therapy in the less-developed world

[Tim Smith]

Hi everyone! Sorry for the late notice! For Monday, let's discuss this 2007 paper by some authors from MSF talking about how Brazil and Thailand successfully handled IP issues around antiretroviral treatment:

http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Fulltext/2007/07004/Sustaining_access_to_antiretroviral_therapy_in_the.4.aspx

It's open-access so you should be able to get to it from off campus; if you can't get to it let me know & I'll send out a PDF.

Tangentially, we had some conversation about me-too drugs last week. Pharmaceutical chemist and blogger Derek Lowe has written on the topic at some length and I think at least his most recent post about it is worth a look, if you're curious about how the industry thinks about these things:
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/me_too_drugs/

Stop me if I've plugged him already, but Lowe's blog more or less happens to be one of my favorite things on the Internet; I don't always agree with him (particularly when he talks politics) but he's consistently thought-provoking and informative, and occasionally v. entertaining (see the "Things I Won't Work With" series).

Cheers,
Tim

[Sonja Babovic]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to send along a few presentations relevant to the paper we discussed today (attached).

Jan18th introduces TRIPS and compulsory licensing, whereas Jan 20th summarizes the paper.  I intended to make both highly digestible and I recommend that you take a look if these issues interest you.

Best wishes,

Sonja

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