About the Authors

Suerie Moon

smoon@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Forum on Global Governance for Health, Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jorge Bermudez

Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ellen 't Hoen

Affiliation IS Academy HIV/AIDS, School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

SM is a member of the Board of Directors of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders-USA and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative-North America. ETH was the executive director of the Medicines Patent Pool from November 2010 until 1 May 2012. SM has been a consultant to the Medicines Patent Pool. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

manuscript: SM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SM ETH JB. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SM ETH JB. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: SM ETH JB.