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Big Pharma Stranglehold: Thwarting India As Independent Maker Of Blockbuster HIV Drugs?

By Intellectual Property Watch

Daniele Dionisio writes: The current break-through of multinational drug corporations in India couples with the protectionist policies pursued by the US and EU and with India?s obligations as a WTO member. Taken together, these realities mean a heavy threat to India?s freedom as independent provider of lifesaving, affordable and state-of-the-art antiretroviral medicines to the resource-limited countries.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).