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Fair Trade Agreement Between E.U., India Could Impede Access To Medicine For World's Poor
"Current negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and India are causing serious concern in many quarters over future access to cheap generic medicines used to treat some of the world's great public health threats: HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and also cancer," Philippe Douste-Blazy, U.N. special adviser on innovative financing for development and chair of UNITAID, and Denis Broun, executive director of UNITAID, write in this post in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog." "Those fears are well founded: if the E.U. and India agree on stringent patent and border measures, India's role as the 'pharmacy of the south' could well come to an end," they add.
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