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Hubs to spread technology and save lives

The patent on an expensive preventive treatment for respiratory syncytial virus infections expires this year. A WHO technology transfer hub in the Netherlands aims to help developing countries make the drug themselves. Gary Humphreys reports.

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4431520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26229198
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.020515
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spelling pubmed-44315202015-07-30 Hubs to spread technology and save lives Bull World Health Organ News The patent on an expensive preventive treatment for respiratory syncytial virus infections expires this year. A WHO technology transfer hub in the Netherlands aims to help developing countries make the drug themselves. Gary Humphreys reports. World Health Organization 2015-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4431520/ /pubmed/26229198 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.020515 Text en (c) 2015 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4431520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26229198
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.020515