Date
26 January 2021
Wereld niet voorbereid op toekomstige pandemie
Chris Hensen and Karel Berkhout of the Dutch newspaper NRC cite the 2021 Access to Medicine Index finding that the largest pharmaceutical companies are ill-prepared for the next pandemic, focusing on only six infectious diseases.
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Following an interview with Jayasree Iyer, the authors underline the "fragility" of the pharmaceutical industry exposed by the current pandemic where the low-income countries are left behind in terms of vaccine supply.
The article then focuses on the role of voluntary and compulsory licensing and the need for pharmaceutical companies to share their IP in addition to integrating access plans early into their pipelines.