Let Them Eat Nexium
Posted on March 29, 2005 by Tito
India’s in the basement, mixin’ up the medicine…
Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) says half of the 700,000 HIV-positive
people who currently receive anti-retroviral drugs in the developing
world depend on Indian generics. It cautions the new bill may
"drastically restrict, perhaps even prevent" the supply to developing
countries.Indian
public health experts fear the changes will worsen access to medicines
in India itself. Government data shows the number of Indians unable to
afford medical treatment rose sharply from 10% to 25% in the decade up
to 1999. "More poor people will stop going for treatment," says Ritu
Priya, at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at Delhi’s
Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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