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100 1 0 _aCassier, Maurice
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700 1 0 _a Corrêa, Marilena
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245 0 0 _aNationalizing Efavirenz: Compulsory License, Collective Invention, and Neo-developmentalism in Brazil (2001–2012)
260 _c2013.
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520 _aThis article examines the legal, technological, and industrial trajectory of an antiretroviral drug, Efavirenz, distributed freely to HIV/AIDS patients by the Brazilian Ministry of Health since the early 2000s. In May 2007, a presidential decree suspended the exclusive rights of the patent owner, Merck and Company, Inc., to exploit the molecule in Brazil, and authorized the production of a generic version by local laboratories. This compulsory license by the Brazilian government also intended to perpetuate the policy of universal access to treatment, with the objective of combating the AIDS epidemic and boosting the country's pharmaceutical industry. The nationalization of Efavirenz has allowed for experimental collective production in the form of an industrial consortium, and launched a policy of partnerships between public and private pharmaceutical laboratories.
690 _apublic/private partnership
690 _areverse engineering
690 _acollective invention
690 _acompulsory licence
690 _ageneric medicine
786 0 _nAutrepart | o 63 | 4 | 2013-05-17 | p. 107-122 | 1278-3986
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-autrepart-2012-4-page-107?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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