African states to back India’s push to remain ‘pharmacy of developing world’
Universal Corporation Ltd in Kenya manufactures generic medicines. PHOTO | FILE
Africa is rallying behind India in its push to protect a controversial patent policy on medicine, to ensure that poor countries still have access to cheaper generic drugs manufactured by Indian pharmaceutical companies.
India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world,” as medicines produced by generics companies in the country are among the most affordable in the world.
