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mr nor lives with his wife and child in a five metre squared room in one of the most populated and poor neighborhoods in mumbai home to twenty million people and india's commercial and industrial. sixteen years ago he moved here from the countryside seeking a better life. mr noor had the misfortune of facing two serious illnesses of the same time diabetes and leukemia. i have diabetes which used to constantly increase my doctor was worried and gave me injections but told me to do the c.b.c. examination which i did and learned that i have cancer. i fear for my family if i die i am the only one that works that is what worries me

most everything else is in god's hands. he was diagnosed in two thousand and ten since then mr noor follows a specific treatment of vital importance to his survival. every day at noon he has to take a four hundred milligram pill which ensures a better quality of life for him. with this medicine i feel good. for my body ached and when i got up i got dizzy. and now i feel good when i used to walk i got short of breath now i don't have that problem. the drug to which mr neuros has improving health goes under the generic name.

it is a copy of glivec originally introduced in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia which greatly increased a patient's life expectancy. is a breakthrough medicine for treatment. but to clearly chronic. what is just. as a magic bullet because it has changed. before in the future. on this. more than ten years.

which changed the life of thousands of cancer patients around the world contains a substance called. in order to develop the substance decades of research and public institutions when needed. the researchers discovered a common element in all patients namely a shift in the genetic material of their d.n.a. . two different genes from two different chromosomes were coalescing by mistake. producing an enzyme that causes an uncontrollable increase in white blood cell count up to twenty five times higher than normal. having found the cause the researchers invented a weapon. they created. which aims directly at the targets and inhibits this

action. he used. thank you. but you had a drug that actually did. all the problems so they decided it was basically done by public apps and public money the problem really was taking the drug from the lab to the market and that's what. i imagine it is the life saving substance for patients with my lord leukemia that is contained in glivec the drug. the exact same active substance can also be found in its copies in generic drugs like the net which is produced by moscow one of india's largest pharmaceutical

companies. product you couldn't ignore it as. we go through a system of trial and regulatory scrutiny which i luvs us to get periods and this product indistinguishable and they're the same and the patient who takes our product or takes no what this product we had at the same to me could benefit. both the original and the copy of the drug are equally effective. but they are also divided by a great difference that price believe a product is sold in india hundred twenty thousand rupees which is about four hundred dollars per month typically and in ninja case. you have

a retail price of two hundred dollars but good discount we give it to patient on hundred fifty dollars two hundred sixty. the great price difference between the two drugs is a matter of life and death for india's poor since about thirty percent of the population lives below the poverty line surviving on less than two dollars a day. i work in a shop where i polish gold. my wife works at home

sewing clothes and earning one thousand to two thousand rupees per month my wage was raised reaching now six thousand rupees about one hundred ten dollars a month i got a raise because i am ill and so we try to manage. with this family income barely reaching one hundred fifty dollars mr noor is unable to buy even the cop even for two hundred dollars. glivec itself costs two thousand four hundred dollars. i get their money i also had something in my jewelry and my daughter. as well. and i gathered five thousand from the money for the greengrocer. twenty rupees he gives me for food i don't eat and keep them as well.

i can't do anything i'll leave it in god's hands whatever god wants i can't do anything. if the generic been up did not exist mr minus would not have survived. he sells incense sticks for the temples and his wife packs jewelry. the family income does not exceed seven thousand rupees or about one hundred forty dollars a month. if they had to buy the original glivec it would cost them one of the house their annual salary. to get one hundred twenty five thousand rupees is a huge amount of look like me there are many who can't pay it can't buy it i believe that the drugs that do good should not stop being made.

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when a state grants a patent or gives a patent certificate to a company for its product it guarantees the company's monopoly for certain period of time which is usually twenty years. in this way it is believed that the company gets compensated for the innovation that contributed. however the indian state has not granted to pain for glivec allowing the distribution of exact copies on the market.

for that reason in two thousand and six novartis sued the indian state launching a landmark legal battle. this battle was so important that it could affect the access to affordable lifesaving drugs for billions of poor people worldwide. living. has got about forty countries. in india was life but was rejected. of course wanted to see innovation be of value in india so we are fighting to get a patent. more like opening. the

doors the four of the four which india has bowed before which we have to do with the doors will be open for all these corporates to go ahead and explode on the same lines other drugs in four of the seams the other companies will go ahead and say ok if they were being granted on the scene grounds we should also be granted. claims that start of this great legal battle just so that it's paid and gets recognition and the circulation of generics will not be at risk in the future there's no question that if has drawn to the patent be a big barrier against all kinds of general products i don't see the logic of it at all and in fact you should ask the people who are telling you to explain that logic to you basically go to court and block the number of genetic companies on a number of different don't know why this is maybe this has nothing to do with.

the pricing going skyrocket if it is not the case and they find the case if that is not the case then go back to your office and start working for the benefit of the society while you did based on your time in the courts i. already have. hiv positive and a member of an activist group that fights for access to cheap medicines. he remembers the time before generics entered the antiretroviral drugs market when aids treatment cost almost ten thousand dollars a month. now it costs less than two hundred fifty dollars to two forty dollars per month to put company which is giving it its making profit although it is not giving it for free i is not giving it no profit no loss also it is making a profit out of it and good enough profit. to its employees for them it's very easy

to say that all of the drugs are not available but for us if if you don't take one drug no after every drop of ours. as it starts to replicate so for me it's a matter of life and. self-sufficiency was central to the political philosophy of independent india's patriarch mahatma gandhi who believed of his country did not need western

technology in order to be independent on clothes food or medicines. the government's policy dating back. was that india should be self-sufficient in the production of food and medicine. and not only did he have no patent system he had a patent system that said you could not do anything. this philosophy was ingrained in india's legal framework on peyton's which resulted in the highly important one thousand nine hundred seventy act for peyton's. thank. you. introduction of the nine hundred seventy bid and it was only the. applications the beach with. know and begin to has

invented a ball says. eight ball making it but it. didn't mention is denying in the bull's eye it's. only the bulls. not the. this policy provided the opportunity for great local generics industry to be developed in order to cater for the great need of the local population which totals almost one point two billion people. i think you know needed i think we thought. the benefit of having patent india would have bordered on the cost of medicine to the point of being. so basically what ingest said was that because companies like g.s.t. pfizer and abbott passing the drugs too high in the air in the sixty's in new chemists needed to be needed to set up facilities where we could make the drugs

ourselves and these are public sector facilities because the government and they basically sort of not sure an industry into making the drugs that they needed for themselves but of course the moment the industry started to grow other developing countries and you going to an m.s.f. doctors access to the drugs from the very same source so it benefited of course you know for example india's malaria program or t.v. program but it also benefited patients outside of india. as a result india became the greatest global power in the production of generic drugs and at the same time protected the population and financial interests. and india is the frog. to have the word of medicines to make medicines and even see in today's prices made in india is sold in the us so in you add up the soil enough tickets sold in south america and genetics probably make up sixty seventy percent no longer going to make up seventy percent of the. medicine so business will fear of

what you might call the quality of the medicine i think the concern is about they it's in aches from the fact that because of the lower costs some people suspect the lower standards are no examples of drugs from the needs. of drugs or they have to be to cold because we found that there were some problems with quality some boxes that were not so. good and so on so if you have a system in place that you have to re mechanism that guarantees that your drugs of good quality then. more to cure the actual active ingredient that the drug has doesn't make up with the pot and when you swallow your appeal you don't swallow also they trade names like nobody's or i don't like that or call many pfizer he just sort of this particular chemical molecule that will kill your body to fight infection or out of a disease everyday glittery authority or any of these bigger countries they come to

the factory before the three of them licenses example enough actually we had the us if to get. approval we have german a pool we have a pool from greece to be sent to the oddities to come over selling a product in greece we have people from australia so that it is a system where all regulatory authorities don't take chances they all come and make sure the proposition because there's in place would lead then the ilo. thank.

outside of mumbai's council hospitals the patients relatives come for months on end . but i have been here for three months. but my son has cancer here on the side. he had surgery

we're staying here. but there was a lump in my chest. i went to get tested and they told me it was cancer and let me go. inside. what should i do all the money i have saved was spent on the trip to come here it is gone. but what will i do know. that where will i go where will i stay. mr kumar is a professor of oncology and works for one of the country's largest cancer hospitals . to india to be have almost one million new cases at the.

beach and if anything printed by him what because it would list the total number of pieces you'd be close to ten million. only a small percentage who can get the helpful man to mr accompanied at that end ploy of the government to sponsor government employees they can get the investment of those men so in such a set up lake here can have the bios immediately but the same quality can go get simpler if you p.c. i believe at the top of the plays even less a place and i think it becomes a bit of a useful thing for the system. wealthy british style to sign. on to the.

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