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Originally Posted by Samm
India has already won at the WTO in a past case and is in full compliance with the international trade agreement. The US through TPP Agreement wants to raise the patent protection from 7 years to 20 years. Most drug company research is done with government grants. (our tax money)
Do you want you Mother, brother, daughter having to wait 20 years to be able to afford a drug that will save their lives?
The generic version of the HIV drugs are now affordable through out the world and saving many lives and have helped to drop the orphan rate drastically in Africa. Screw Big Pharma.
http://www.worldipreview.com/news/us...pp-drug-policy |
Patents on pharmaceuticals last 20 years, for better or worse. Though I certainly have my complaints with Big Pharma, I also understand their concern about imports of generics from places like India.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...98B17C20130912