Africa: Failing Infrastructure Renders Compulsory Licensing Pointless

opinion

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group is currently meeting in Geneva to discuss public health, medical innovation, and intellectual property.

Many participants are expected to express their support for efforts to undermine patent protections for drugs. In doing so, however, these attendees ignore the more fundamental problem facing poor African nations - dilapidated healthcare infrastructure.

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