CNS Live! eConversation with Charles Gore of Medicines Patent Pool

CNS Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla, was in eConversation with Charles Gore, Executive Director of the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) in CNS Live session on 5th March 2019. Key highlight is where Charles Gore shares key learning of his engagement around hepatitis (both hepatitis C and hepatitis B related) spanning so many years. He also shares insights on range of issues such as access to medicines, voluntary licensing, and on his role at Medicines Patent Pool now, and way forward. MORE ABOUT CHARLES GORE: Charles Gore took up the post in July 2018 following a career in patient representation and public health advocacy. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1995 and cirrhosis in 1998. In 2000 he set up The Hepatitis C Trust in the UK which he ran for 18 years. In 2002 he was treated and cured of the virus. He helped create the European Liver Patients Association and was its first President in 2004. In 2007 he organised a meeting of hepatitis patient organisations from around the world to agree on co-ordinated global action. From this emerged the decision to hold an annual World Hepatitis Day and to create a new NGO, the World Hepatitis Alliance, of which Charles was the President from 2007 until the end of 2017. As a result of advocacy by the Alliance and its members, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted successive viral hepatitis resolutions in 2010, 2014 and 2016, making World Hepatitis Day an official day, celebrated on 28 July every year, and...