Novartis's 6-Year Legal Challenge Against India's Pro-Health Law Heads to Supreme Court
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Channel: Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices that keep medicine prices high. If successful, the move would have a devastating impact on access to essential medicines across the developing world, according to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which relies on affordable generic drugs produced in India to carry out its work in 68 countries.
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