Doctors Without Borders accuses US of pushing India to ease patent rules | Rawstory
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Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Saturday accused the United States of ratcheting up pressure on India’s new government to relax strict patent conditions which have made the country the “world’s pharmacy”.
India’s vast generics industry is a major supplier of cheap copycat, lifesaving drugs to treat diabetes, cancer and other diseases afflicting poor people locally and globally who cannot afford expensive branded versions.
“India has been the world’s affordable drug safe-haven — the biggest source of affordable medicines,” Leena Menghaney, South Asia Regional Head of MSF’s Access Campaign, told AFP.
“But now the US is trying to paint India as a rogue nation” in the area of patent law, she said in an interview.
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