Voluntary licensing via the Medicines Patent Pool, which allows generic drug companies to manufacture a drug before its patent has expired, can offer huge positive economic and health impacts, according to a modelling study in the February issue of The Lancet Public Health. It predicted that the voluntary licensing of dolutegravir in 2014 will have increased treatment uptake by 15.5 million patient-years, averted over 150,000 deaths, and saved health authorities $3.1 billion by 2032.
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