ViiV Healthcare expands dolutegravir deal with MPP

25 April 2016

Global HIV specialist firm ViiV Healthcare says it has extended the overall country coverage of its existing license agreement for its adults formulation of dolutegravir to the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to cover all lower middle income countries (LMICs).

ViiV, which is majority-owned by UK major GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), with US pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Japan’s Shionogi (TYO: 4507) as shareholders, notes that the existing license agreement already covers all low income, least developed and all sub-Saharan African countries. This extension to include all remaining LMICs means that more than 94% of adults living with HIV in the developing world are now covered by the license agreement.

Particular relevance for Armenia, Moldova, Morocco and Ukraine

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