Pool medical patents, save lives - Ellen 't Hoen
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Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop -- but
that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick
people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about
an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool. (Filmed at TEDxZurich.)
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