[Commons-Law] HIV AIDS and patent law

[Sudhir Krishnaswamy]

what open source is to copyright law ; hiv/aids is to patent law!! they're
both sledgehammers..

sudhir


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil Abraham" <sunil at mahiti.org>
To: "Sudhir Krishnaswamy" <sudhir75 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Commons-Law] HIV AIDS and patent law


> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:46, Sudhir Krishnaswamy wrote:
> > seem at this stage that the AIDS crisis will redraw the boundaries of
> > patent law for good!   Sudhir
>
> Absolutely. According to http://www.accessmed-msf.org/campaign/faq.shtm.
>         A triple-combination of ARVs costs $10,000 - $15,000 per patient
>         per year in the US and Europe. However, generic drug producers
>         have offered to sell the equivalent medicines for as low as $300
>         per patient/year.
>
> That could be a 98% reduction in price. Simplistically you could say
> that 50 times more lives will be saved. The number of people living with
> HIV [PLWHA] in the world today has risen to 42 million according to UN.
>
> Thankfully NGOs have realised that that IPR reform has greater systemic
> impact than increased fund raising.
>
> Sunil
>
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