From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anna Marriott</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amariott@oxfam.org.uk">amariott@oxfam.org.uk</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"> <br>Global Health Check has posted a new item by Anna Marriott:<br>
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Free medicines in Rajasthan, India<br>
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India is known as the pharmacy of the world but 65% of Indians have no access to essential medicines. Watch this video to see how the State of Rajisthan in India is tackling the problem by promoting generic medicines and providing these free<br>
of charge in the public sector.<br>
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This week, negotiations continue on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement. Worldwide there are serious concerns that the deal will include stricter intellectual property rules than necessary and result in a deadly escalation in medicine prices for developing countries. Such a deal would also threaten innovative and<br>
progressive schemes like this one in India itself. <br>
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Watch this video at: <a href="http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?p=609" target="_blank">http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?p=609</a><br>
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