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Pharmaceutical life cycle management and access to medicine in times of COVID-19 pandemic
[Gestion du cycle de vie des produits pharmaceutiques et accès aux médicaments en période de pandémie de COVID-19]

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  • Samira Guennif

    (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, IRIS - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Abstract

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March 2020, the urgent need to treat millions of patients worldwide led to a rush to drug "repurposing" (i.e. the recycling of existing drugs to treat new diseases) and induced strategic behavior by firms. Based on a literature survey and a review of online databases designed to collect unbiased secondary data, this article proposes a comparative case study of the divergent strategies followed by two firms holding patents (Abbvie and Gilead) for two repurposed drugs (respectively Kaletra and Remdesivir) in the midst of a pandemic. Establishing stylized facts and a chronology of events, this case study retraces the trajectory of two repurposed drugs for COVID-19 and explains why the firms adopted a more or less offensive life cycle management of their products in order to ensure exclusive marketing, to gain rents with the ultimate risk of limiting access to vital medicines. This study discusses finally the innovation system and its discontents in a new global pandemic.

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  • Samira Guennif, 2024. "Pharmaceutical life cycle management and access to medicine in times of COVID-19 pandemic [Gestion du cycle de vie des produits pharmaceutiques et accès aux médicaments en période de pandémie de COVID-19]," Post-Print hal-05556453, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05556453
    DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-17198-0.p.0119
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