On average, people around the world are living significantly longer than their grandparents. In part, this is thanks to innovation in vaccines and to medicines reaching increasing numbers of patients. But as people live longer and new medical breakthroughs create even greater opportunities for new treatments, many governments find their limited resources spread ever wider. Against this backdrop, the issues of access to medicines and intellectual property (IP) have become hotly contested topics. Two leading experts give their views on these issues.
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