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Pharmaceutical Companies Should 'Get On Board' With Unitaid's 'Patent Pools'
In this Guardian opinion piece, Jill Filipovic, a freelance writer and blogger at Feministe, reports on how Unitaid, an organization "largely funded through innovating financing methods, including a tax on airplane tickets," is working to increase access to HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis treatments in developing countries through "patent pools" and urges pharmaceutical companies to "get on board."
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