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Beyond these technical solutions, our work at the Georgetown Climate Center with communities encourages them to look at what existing legal and policy tools are
available
and to consider how they can accommodate change.
Aid increases the resources
available
to governments, and that makes working in a government the most profitable thing you can have, as a person in Africa seeking a career.
It's actually
available
on the market.
So we learned a few lessons in commercializing and making DryBath
available.
So only problem: the only
available
victim is my wife.
Living with a physical disability isn't easy anywhere in the world, but if you live in a country like the United States, there's certain appurtenances
available
to you that do make life easier.
And the devices usually
available
to these people are not made for that context, break down quickly, and are hard to repair.
I started looking at wheelchairs in developing countries in 2005, when I spent the summer assessing the state of technology in Tanzania, and I talked to wheelchair users, wheelchair manufacturers, disability groups, and what stood out to me is that there wasn't a device
available
that was designed for rural areas, that could go fast and efficiently on many types of terrain.
So being a mechanical engineer, being at MIT and having lots of resources
available
to me, I thought I'd try to do something about it.
But these are two products
available
in the U.S. that would be difficult to transfer into developing countries because they're much, much too expensive.
Because those bicycle parts are so ubiquitously available, they're super-cheap.
They're made by the gazillions in China and India, and we can source them anywhere in the world, build the chair anywhere, and most importantly repair it, even out in a village with a local bicycle mechanic who has local tools, knowledge and parts
available.
So I'm an academic at MIT, and I'm a mechanical engineer, so I can do things like look at the type of terrain you want to travel on, and figure out how much resistance it should impose, look at the parts we have
available
and mix and match them to figure out what sort of gear trains we can use, and then look at the power and force you can get out of your upper body to analyze how fast you should be able to go in this chair as you put your arms up and down the levers.
The person with the idea may not have the knowledge, but the knowledge is
available.
The U.S. government decided to take action, and forced those patent holders to make their patents
available
to share with others to enable the production of airplanes.
The patents on those drugs were held by a number of Western pharmaceutical companies that were not necessarily willing to make those patents
available.
When you have a patent, you can exclude anyone else from making, from producing or making low-cost versions, for example,
available
of those medications.
There were countries that did not recognize pharmaceutical product patents, such as India, and Indian pharmaceutical companies started to produce so-called generic versions, low-cost copies of antiretroviral medicines, and make them
available
in the developing world, and within a year the price had come down from 10,000 dollars per patient per year to 350 dollars per patient per year, and today that same triple pill cocktail is
available
for 60 dollars per patient per year, and of course that started to have an enormous effect on the number of people who could afford access to those medicines.
Treatment programs became possible, funding became available, and the number of people on antiretroviral drugs started to increase very rapidly.
So you can imagine that if you are a generic company about to decide whether to invest in the development of this product, unless you know that the licenses to these patents are actually going to be available, you will probably choose to do something else.
And this is how it works: Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents
available
to the Medicines Patent Pool.
It relies on the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to license their patents and make them
available
for others to use.
Nelson is a member of the expert advisory group of the Medicines Patent Pool, and he told me not so long ago, "Ellen, we rely in Kenya and in many other countries on the Medicines Patent Pool to make sure that new medicines also become
available
to us, that new medicines, without delay, become
available
to us."
And there was a cue that was
available
to us.
The thing is the sun is not always
available
to you, because at sunset it disappears below the horizon.
Should the control group in the clinical trial be given the best current treatment which is
available
anywhere in the world?
Or should they be given an alternative standard of care, such as the best current treatment
available
in the country in which the research is being conducted?
However, the best current treatment
available
anywhere in the world is often very difficult to provide in developing countries.
And there isn't always a translator
available.
They'd have to be
available
at very competitive rates.
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