<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Global Health Check</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oxfamblogs@gmail.com">oxfamblogs@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br><br>Global Health Check has posted a new item, 'One important step forward for access to medicines in India, but are two giant steps backwards just around the corner?'<br>
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Last week, the Indian Patent Office took a major step to decrease the price of a previously unaffordable life-saving medicine by issuing a ‘compulsory license’ on Sorafenib, a medicine used for the treatment of kidney and liver cancers. But such welcome action is unlikely to be repeated if the EU and Novartis have their way.<br>
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Anna Marriott<br>
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