Labour MEP says future Ebola vaccine must be affordable, with open access to research | Socialists & Democrats

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Summary:

"Labour MEP Glenis Willmott, chair of the European Parliament Access to Medicines working group, today called for any Ebola vaccine to be affordable, with open access to the research....'I call on the Innovative Medicines Initiative to allow open access to results from any trials related to Ebola, and to pledge that any successful vaccines or diagnostics developed will be truly affordable. This is a humanitarian crisis with the potential to be global in scale, we must ensure that everyone can be protected from this deadly disease....' "

Link:

http://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/labour-mep-says-future-ebola-vaccine-must-be-affordable-open-access-research

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Tags:

oa.pharma oa.medicine oa.mandates oa.data oa.funders oa.europe oa.new ru.sparc oa.policies

Date tagged:

11/07/2014, 20:27

Date published:

11/07/2014, 11:37