Tag Archives: Generic drug

Landmark decision on medicines and anti-counterfeiting law by Kenyan High Court

The Kenyan Anti-Counterfeit Act adopted in December 2008 contained an excessively broad definition of what constitutes a ‘counterfeit’ product that had the potential to include legally-manufactured generics. As such, legally manufactured and/or imported generic medicines of approved quality may be … Continue reading

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Novartis’ deadly lawsuit

Novartis, a massive drug company, is suing the Government of India to protect profits and undercut the generic drug industry that saves millions of lives a year. Tell Novartis: Put patients over profits. Drop your lawsuit now. India produces most … Continue reading

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Protest by AIDS activists in UK against India-EU FTA today

Affordable HIV medicines are being threatened!! 6 February 2012 After nearly four years of back and forth negotiating between the EU and India , on Friday 10th February the terms of the free trade agreement (FTA) will be announced at the EU-India Summit … Continue reading

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Poser over medicine supplies:GLOBAL TRENDS

By MARTIN KHOR Source: The Star January 9, 2012 Patients worldwide suffering from various ailments have benefited from cheap generic Indian drugs. But will Indian companies be able to supply new drugs in the future? INDIA may be more famous … Continue reading

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Generic Prescription Drugs saved $931 billion in United States in past 10 years, says US generic industry

Press Release by GPhA, 21 Sep 2011 New Study Finds Use of Generic Prescription Drugs Saved Consumers and the U.S. Health Care System $931 Billion Over Past 10 Years Savings Reached $158 Billion in 2010, Averaging $3 Billion Weekly WASHINGTON, … Continue reading

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Controversial Trans-Pacific Free Trade Talks End

Progress Illinois Aaron Krager, Friday September 16th Trade talks for a Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement ended yesterday at the Hilton Hotel in the world’s fourth most economically powerful city in the world. It seems only fitting Chicago, a city with … Continue reading

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Open Letter from Thai Civil Society: One Step forward, Two Steps back: the Agreement between the Medicine Patent Pool and Gilead Sciences, Inc

On behalf of the Thai Network of People Living with HIV & AIDS, pharmaceutical academics and civil society organisations working on access to medicines for all in Thailand, we wish to raise our grave concerns regarding the agreement between the … Continue reading

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Medicine Patent Pool’s agreement with Gilead: Is it really a fair deal?

Recently, Medicine Patent Pool signed its first agreement with pharmaceutical company Gilead for the production of the HIV medicines tenofovir, emtricitabine, cobicistat, and elvitegravir as well as a combination of these products in a single pill known as the “Quad.” Click … Continue reading

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Global Access Licensing as means to increase access to medicines

Read here an interesting blog article by UAEM suggesting Global Access Licensing as means for ensuring that public funded research on medical innovation reaches to people living in the developing countries on affordable prices. Global Access Licensing would allow generic … Continue reading

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Vietnam and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

The Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement being currently negotiated is proving to be retrograde to the fight against HIV in Vietnam. According to a June 16 article in the Public Citizen: The leaked U.S. proposal for the intellectual property chapter of the … Continue reading

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