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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-556/annex-I/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/556",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 556/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the participation of the Union in a second European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Programme (EDCTP2) jointly undertaken by several Member States",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-556",
  "path": "annex/I/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(1)",
  "heading": "General Objective",
  "text": "EDCTP2 shall contribute to the reduction of the social and economic burden of poverty-related diseases in developing countries, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, by accelerating the clinical development of effective, safe, accessible, suitable and affordable medical interventions for poverty-related diseases, in partnership with sub-Saharan Africa.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the purpose of this decision, ‘medical interventions’ encompass measures whose purpose is to improve or sustain health or alter the course of a disease, in particular prevention and treatment based on medicinal products such as drugs, microbicides or vaccines, including their delivery modality, follow up of treatment and prevention in the affected population as well as medical diagnostics to detect and monitor disease/health evolution."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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