Three Firms Sign Up With MPP For Long-Acting Cabotegravir

Aurobindo, Cipla And Viatris’s Mylan Agree Deal To Produce HIV PrEP Treatment

Three generics firms – Aurobindo, Cipla and Viatris’s Mylan – have signed licensing agreements with the Medicines Patent Pool that will allow them to produce versions of ViiV Healthcare’s long-acting cabotegravir treatment for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.

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Three firms have signed a deal with the MPP • Source: Shutterstock

Aurobindo, Cipla and Viatris’s Mylan will be able to produce generic versions of ViiV Healthcare’s long-acting cabotegravir treatment for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis to be made available in least developed, low-income, lower-middle-income and sub-Saharan African countries, under licensing deals that the three firms have signed with the Medicines Patent Pool.

The announcement of the three sub-licensees comes after the MPP last year invited expressions of interest from potential partners based...

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