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December 16, 2024

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12/05/2024

Essay

Technology transfer, intellectual property, and the fight for the soul of WHO

In this historical Essay, Melissa Barber describes the lost vision of global solidarity embodied in WHO’s midcentury technology transfer program offers a glimpse into an alternate path we might still chart, one where access to medicines is not bound by the logic of enforcing scarcity to maximize profit, and the right to health is a global responsibility.

Image credit: Figure 2 by Barber et al., CC BY 4.0

Technology transfer, intellectual property, and the fight for the soul of WHO

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PLOS Global Public Health | ISSN: 2767-3375 (online)