Thailand approves copycat drugs
Thailand government said today it had approved a cheap, copycat heart disease drug, the first time a developing country has ignored an international patent for such a treatment.
As well as the "compulsory licence" of Plavix, made by US and European pharmaceutical giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis, Bangkok approved a generic version of Abbott Laboratories' Kaletra to treat HIV/AIDS.
"We have to do this because we don't have enough money to buy safe and necessary drugs for the people under the government's universal health scheme," Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla told reporters today.
The move, was critised by the drug industrya and praised from AIDS activists.
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As well as the "compulsory licence" of Plavix, made by US and European pharmaceutical giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis, Bangkok approved a generic version of Abbott Laboratories' Kaletra to treat HIV/AIDS.
"We have to do this because we don't have enough money to buy safe and necessary drugs for the people under the government's universal health scheme," Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla told reporters today.
The move, was critised by the drug industrya and praised from AIDS activists.
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