A special United Nations commission on critical medicines—that is, everything from simple ibuprofen to the lifesaving drug cocktail to treat HIV, is expected to release within days a long-awaited report about how the global community might best alleviate barriers to access to medicine in the developing world.
It’s estimated that upwards of 2 billion people across the globe lack access to critical medicines. But the UN report won’t bring those people any closer to accessing those drugs, because, as I write in a new column for Real Clear, we know exactly the non-starter it will propose: erase intellectual property in health care: Continue reading “U.N. Set To Erode Drug Patent Rights”



