In the seventh episode, the Essentially Medicines crew takes an educational approach to discuss practices such as ever-greening that extend market exclusivity of pharmaceutical drugs. In addition to explaining such artificial barriers to entry for generic firms, we discuss march-in rights and voluntary licensing as mechanisms to improve access to medicines. Happy listening :)

Episode 7: Know Your Rights

Medicines are ubiquitous, especially if you recently had a medical procedure. But all these medical procedures would not be possible without basic medicines. The call for these basic medicines to be made available to all patients is the essential medicines movement that began in the late 1970s. Through this podcast, three undergraduate students from UCLA interview experts with different backgrounds to learn about existing rationales around essential medicines. We believe that medicines should be available to all because at the end of the day, they are essentially medicines 

music: Tyler Chiu, graphic: Kyron Shochat

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Medicines are ubiquitous, especially if you recently had a medical procedure. But all these medical procedures would not be possible without basic medicines. The call for these basic medicines to be made available to all patients is the essential medicines movement that began in the late 1970s. Through this podcast, three undergraduate students from UCLA interview experts with different backgrounds to learn about existing rationales around essential medicines. We believe that medicines should be available to all because at the end of the day, they are essentially medicines music: Tyler Chiu, graphic: Kyron Shochat

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