The UK Government and the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies today committed to continue to work together to help increase access to essential medicines for the world’s poorest countries...The UK Government’s framework for good practice has been developed with the support and input of the pharmaceutical industry, including GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), AstraZeneca, Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and the American Pharmaceutical Group (APG)...[which] represents eleven US pharmaceutical companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chiron Vaccines, Janssen-Cilag Ltd [part of Johnson & Johnson], Lilly [Eli Lilly], Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.