Word: accessibility
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Over 150 students marched and tore down a mock brick wall outside Massachusetts Hall yesterday to protest what they said were “fundamental gaps” in the University’s recent online statement of commitment to increase access to new health technologies in developing countries...
...protestors, members of the organization Say Yes to Drugs, which advocates for access rights to medicine in developing countries, said that the University should have a strategy for generic access for poor people in place before seeking patents for health technologies in countries like India and China, which have the capacity to produce cheap generic drugs...
...Harvard’s words about access are empty,” Krishna M. Prabhu ’11, a member of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), said at the rally...
...Right now the voices for access aren’t in the room when Harvard makes decisions about who gets access to Harvard’s medical technologies and who doesn’t,” Prabhu said...
...said that these additional perspectives would be key to developing strategies to equitably balance access and incentives for innovation...