title: Public/private-sector collaboration in contraceptive research and development: summary and historical perspective.
abstract: This summary and historical perspective relates exclusively to contraceptive research and development during the period between the early 1970s and the present. This paper covers the raison d'être for public/private-sector collaboration in this field, provides definitions and summarizes the issues motivating and confronting both sectors, discusses and outlines a generic memorandum of understanding (MOU) that can be used to initiate collaborative research activities, and presents a time line of selected milestones in public/private-sector collaboration, many of which were initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation. Public and private-sector collaboration takes advantage of the unique strengths of both sectors and offers good opportunities for a 'win-win' situation in product development.
authors.affiliation: Center for Population, Health and Nutrition, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spieler
mesh_terms: D003267:Contraception; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004345:Drug Industry; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health; D014944:World Health Organization