Essential Innovation and Access

Access to Essential Medicines

The market-driven model of pharmaceutical R&D does not sufficiently respond to the health needs of population groups who represent a commercially-unattractive market; including diseases predominantly found in developing countries. Moreover, even within the EU, recent cuts in medicines expenditure have shown that governments are struggling to pay the price of profit-driven innovation. Sustainability is a real issue and where the market fails, new models of health-driven R&D that promote affordable access must be explored.

News

November 2011 - HAI Europe and Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) organized an expert conference to examine how the EU Commission's Research and Innovation Framework programme – Horizon 2020, will invest in economically and socially sustainable innovation models. Read more.


July 2011 - HAI Europe welcomes the Gilead licensing agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool. On 12 July 2011 the Medicines Patent Pool announced its first licences to increase access to HIV and Hepatitis B treatment in developing countries. Read more.