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A documentary ‘Fire in the Blood‘ has been made by Dylan Mohan Gray which portrays Africa’s fight for HIV medicines, the controversial role of governments and pharma groups. What has happened in Africa has been described as the  ‘crime of the century‘. It is one of the greatest crimes in human history! Even then not even one person has been called to account. Though pharma companies act in their own interests, it is the role of the governments that is deplorable. The monopolization exists, and the tax payers are ripped off. The system benefits the pharma companies at a horrendous cost to society. Pharma companies do influence the government policies.

India has become the pharmacy of the world, since the changing of the Patent Act in 1970 . It supplies high quality, lower cost products to every corner of the planet. It not only makes available affordable drugs to its  1.3 billion people, but to so many billions elsewhere in the world. India has not granted blanket monopolies to big pharma’s incredibly expensive drugs.

The West works ruthlessly against the flow of inexpensive medicines from India and other countries. The main tool in their arsenal is coercive trade agreements.