While the world signed away its medical secrets in 1995, India’s crafty WTO maneuvers ensured that your local pharmacy stays cheap, saving the common man thousands in life-saving bills. Imagine waking up in January 1995. The air in Delhi is crisp, and while most were nursing New Year hangovers, a small band of Indian negotiators was effectively saving your future bank account from total annihilation. This was the birth of the World Trade Organization (WTO). For many, it sounded like just another boring alphabet soup of bureaucracy - GATT, TRIPS, trade barriers. But underneath the legalese, a war was brewing over who gets to make your medicine and, more importantly, who gets to afford it. The Great Patent Tightrope Western pharma giants wanted total control. They pushed for "product patents”, a fancy way of saying nobody else could touch their formula for twenty years. If India had blinked, those ₹500 ...
While the world signed away its medical secrets in 1995, India’s crafty WTO maneuvers ensured that your local pharmacy stays cheap, saving the common man thousands in life-saving bills. Imagine waking up in January 1995. The air in Delhi is crisp, and while most were nursing New Year hangovers, a ...
While the world signed away its medical secrets in 1995, India’s crafty WTO maneuvers ensured that your local pharmacy stays cheap, saving the common man thousands in life-saving bills. Imagine waking up in January 1995. The air in Delhi is crisp, and while most were nursing New Year hangovers, a ...
While the world signed away its medical secrets in 1995, India’s crafty WTO maneuvers ensured that your local pharmacy stays cheap, saving the common man thousands in life-saving bills. Imagine waking up in January 1995. The air in Delhi is crisp, and while most were nursing New Year hangovers, a ...