Evergreening, Extension of Expired Patents effects on access to medicines

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. Extending expired patents using crooked ways by big Pharma is killing people all over the world. Agencies in government and our regional bodies are sleeping in their jobs some even sleeping with big Pharma. Out dated agreements need to be reviewed and ratified to protect the poor and vulnerable so that they can access medicine. We can not talk of UHC without looking the patent laws which are a big barrier to access affordable treatment and medicines. #Fixpatentlaws
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