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Health of millions of poor people threatened by EU-India free trade deal

If stringent patent and border measures are agreed at the EU-India free trade summit, patients in poor countries will no longer have access to cheap essential medicines

L-R: EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, EU president Herman Van Rompuy and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh at the summit in New Delhi. Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP

L-R: EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, EU president Herman Van Rompuy and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh at the summit in New Delhi. Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP 

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. Those fears are well founded: if the EU and India agree on stringent patent and border measures, India's role as the "pharmacy of the south" could well come to an end.

 

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