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Medicines360’s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth control
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A client receives information at Mary’s Center, a community health center in Washington in 2018. The center is one of more than 2,500 publicly funded health clinics that has distributed Medicines360 products in the United States. - photo by Medicines360 via AP
Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market. One of them is Medicines360, which in 2015 became the first nonprofit to introduce a medical device — an IUD.