The Health Impact Fund: a potential solution to inequity in global drug access.
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2010-10
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Global health inequities persist despite significant increases
in funding and a growing number of global health initiatives.
Especially vulnerable to disease, the poor majority of the world’s
population currently cannot afford advanced medicines, and
the diseases confined to the poor receive little attention from
pharmaceutical research. As a complement to the existing
intellectual property regime, we have proposed the Health Impact
Fund (HIF) as a mechanism that would create incentives for
the development and optimal promotion of new high-impact
medicines sold at the cost of manufacture. In this article, we
outline the HIF and its ethical significance.
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Banerjee Amitava, Pogge Thomas. The Health Impact Fund: a potential solution to inequity in global drug access. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. 2010 Oct-Dec; 7(4): 240-243.