C-TAP/MPP Sign COVID-19 Diagnostics Deal
Executive Summary
The Medicines Patent Pool, on behalf of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), has signed a sublicensing agreement with Biotech Africa to speed up the availability of a serological antibody COVID-19 test at global level.
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