We’re pushing for a patent pool to help deliver affordable, appropriate HIV treatment to the millions around the world who still can’t access the life-saving drugs they need. To mark World AIDS Day 2008 we decided to promote the Push for the Pool campaign we travelled to Hampstead Heath on one of the coldest days [...]
A patent pool is our best chance to revolutionise access to HIV treatment forever. It’s vital that as many people as possible sign our e-petition.
Over 33 million people are living with HIV but only one in three has access to the treatment they need to stay alive. This is often because the cost of treatment [...]
With your help a ‘Patent Pool’ system currently being investigated could help deliver affordable treatment to the millions around the world who are currently dying because they aren’t getting the HIV drugs they need to survive.
Used in WWI to accelerate advances in primitive aeroplane technology, patent pools have been applied to lots of thing, but [...]
Aside from being an incredibly exciting chance to change the way we produce HIV medicines forever, a patent pool can seem to be a slightly frightening technical thingy. But it isn’t. It’s really simple actually. Click on the thumbnail on the right for a diagram explaining how it works (you might have to zoom in [...]
