Mylan enters MPP agreement over affordable hepatitis C generics

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Mylan has entered into a sub-licensing agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), a UN-backed public health organisation, to expand access to chronic hepatitis C medicines in developing countries.

Under the agreement, announced yesterday, November 28, Mylan will produce and market a generic version of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Daklinza (daclatasvir).

The generic drug will be distributed in 112 low and middle income countries.

Source: http://www.lifesciencesipreview.com/news/mylan-enters-mpp-agreement-over-affordable-hepatitis-c-generics-1885