Press releases for essential medicines

Poverty, not Pharmaceutical Patents, Leading Factor in Lack of Access to Medicine in Developing Countries (2009-02-19)
Poverty, not pharmaceutical patents, is the leading factor to a lack of access to essential medicines in developing countries. A study of the issue in sixty-five such countries, published in the Journal of Health Affairs, finds a rarity in patenting most of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Model List of Essential Medicines (WHO- EML).