Pharmaceutical companies including Novartis and Roche have teamed up with global cancer organizations in an alliance aimed at getting more oncology medications to poorer countries
have teamed up with global cancer organisations in an alliance aimed at getting more oncology medications to poorer countries.
In the first concrete step for the Access to Oncology Medicines Coalition, Novartis has licensed its blood cancer drug nilotinib to the United Nations' Medicines Patent Pool , allowing generic manufacturers to access the know-how to produce the drug at scale and at a lower cost.Previously, the technology behind HIV drugs and COVID-19 has been shared in this way, but nilotinib is the first drug for a non-communicable disease in the pool, ATOM said.
"I think in a year there's a lot that you can try to test and this is not the only medicine that we would consider offering up," he said in an interview. The coalition begins with $32 million from the private sector and will focus initially on capacity building activities in ten lower and middle income countries, developing existing initiatives.
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