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Liability and other Legal Issues for Organizations Engaged in Product Development through Public-Private Collaboration
Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health
Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health
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"Within the last five or so years, there has been a marked increase in the number of groups attempting to develop tools to combat the diseases and other health problems associated with poverty, through so-called ‘public-private partnerships’ (PPPs) involving both public agencies such as the World Health Organization, government bilateral aid institutions, foundations funding public health such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and private sector entities such as pharmaceutical and biomedical companies. This phenomenon arises from an increasing recognition that, while the expertise to turn scientific research into useful health products (drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, contraceptives, microbicides, insecticide treated bednets, etc.) resides overwhelmingly in the private sector commercial industry, the commercial incentives do not currently exist to provide these tools to the poor populations that need them. Therefore collaboration between the public and private sectors is necessary to develop new, affordable medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world."(pg vii)
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2004-04
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2940286183
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