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The Medicines Patent Pool is improving access to essential medication where it’s most needed, but does it make economic sense?

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2010 with the support of the United Nations. Its mission is to improve access to essential medicines in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). It negotiates voluntary licences with patent holders – typically, pharmaceutical companies – before granting non-exclusive and…

The Conversation · Aug 17

‘We are being silenced’: Mongolian politicians face jail after vote calling for PM to resign

Former deputy speaker describes situation as absurd after being charged with ‘effort to unlawfully seize state power’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17

Mongolia Ruling Party Wins Reduced Majority In Vote Dominated By Graft

Mongolia's ruling party emerged from this week's polls with its parliamentary majority significantly diminished Saturday, local media said, after a campaign dominated by graft fears and the state of the economy.

International Business Times · Jun 29, 2024

Texas judge prevents Biden from ending ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy

A Texas federal judge on Thursday ruled for a second time that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can’t end a Trump administration program that forced asylum seekers to wait outside the country while their claims are resolved.

Tribune News Service · Dec 16, 2022

Pharma's expensive gaming of the drug patent system is successfully countered by the Medicines Patent Pool, which increases global access and rewards innovation

Biomedical innovation reached a new era during the COVID-19 pandemic as drug development went into overdrive. But the ways that brand companies license their patented drugs grant them market monopoly, preventing other entities from making generics so they can exclusively profit. This significantly limits the reach of lifesaving drugs, especially…

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2022

Mexico says Trump-era border program formally ends

Mexico's foreign ministry said on Tuesday a Trump-era program that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration hearings, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), had come to an end.

Reuters · Oct 25, 2022

How Western countries could stop Africa making vaccines of the future

While Western donors have stumped up significant funding for a programme to make Covid-19 vaccines in Africa, activists say more support is needed to help poor countries secure the intellectual property rights they need to produce mRNA vaccines beyond the pandemic.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 14, 2022

‘Like copying a Louis Vuitton handbag’: big pharma hits out at Africa’s replica Covid vaccine

Knowledge-sharing hub in Cape Town reverse engineered the Moderna vaccine, but future of the initiative to reduce inequity remains unsure

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2022

“Thanks, and God bless you”: Asylum-seekers allowed to enter U.S. after “remain in Mexico” ends

Two weeks after a federal judge allowed the Biden administration to end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, U.S. judges are beginning to allow migrants to stay in the country as their asylum claims are pending.

The Texas Tribune · Aug 26, 2022

First confusion, and finally some relief, as 'Remain in Mexico' begins wind down in San Diego

SAN DIEGO — Moments after his immigration case was heard Wednesday, a 51-year-old Cuban asylum seeker sat on a bench in the back of the courtroom and wept openly.

Tribune News Service · Aug 13, 2022