Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop- but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool. [11:16]

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prescription drugs

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pharmaceutical, medical technologies, medicines patent pool, ted ed: pool medical patents, save lives, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs

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• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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