Medicine & Surgery
Cipla's 'dollar a day' AIDS therapy
2001Yusuf Hamied / CiplaOffer to Medecins Sans Frontieres (6 Feb 2001)Pan-Indian / unspecified
2001
Offered a generic three-drug antiretroviral cocktail for about $1 a day, against $10,000-15,000 a year in the West.
- Dated
- 2001
- As scholars put it
- 2001
- Originator
- Yusuf Hamied / Cipla
- Source text
- Offer to Medecins Sans Frontieres (6 Feb 2001)
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Verified-web
Meanwhile in the West
Branded originals from Western multinationals.
Fair to say
Legal under India's pre-2005 process-patent law; drug companies called it piracy, health campaigners a breakthrough.
Path to modern innovation
Helped make mass HIV treatment possible in poor countries.
Builds on
Transmission
Triggered patent waivers and price falls across Africa.
References
- 1Business Today
- 2Chemistry World
- 3Scroll (Hamied interview)
Further reading
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