Let India Make Cheap Drugs – NYTimes.com Op-Ed

Last month, the United States and India announced an important breakthrough concerning India’s “right-to-food” program. The Indian government subsidizes food for its poorest citizens through a system of price supports and public stockpiling. The program is critical to India’s future: According to Unicef, one in three of the world’s malnourished children lives in India.

But as India’s policy has expanded, it has come into conflict with World Trade Organization rules on agriculture.  The impasse now seems to be resolved…

This positive development on food, however, is in stark contrast to the United States’ approach to India’s policies on affordable medicines…

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