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Patenting a new drug helps finance its enormous development costs – but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach of sick people in developing countries, at a deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool. (Filmed at TEDxZürich.)

Lecture by Ellen 't Hoen.

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