Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

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Nature Research, Nature Medicine, 8(18), p. 1168-1168, 2012

DOI: 10.1038/nm0812-1168

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The time for pharmaceutical compulsory licensing has expired

Journal article published in 2012 by Randall Kuhn ORCID, Reed F. Beall
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Abstract

The compulsory license mechanism is broken and will not bring drug access to the world's poorest nations. it's time to consider another option-a tax levied on patents-to fund drugs for developing countries, rather than the erratic compulsory licensing mechanism.