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印度被诟病的地方很多,但有一个领域却被全世界穷人感恩戴德,那就是——印度仿制药。如果你看过《我不是药神》,就知道印度专门生产的低价仿制药,说白了就是山寨药,价格和欧美正版药相差数百倍。所以印度成了“世界药房”,更被冠以“穷人福音”的美名。
但你有没有这个困惑:为什么印度仿制药这么便宜?为什么印度的仿制药动了西方药企的蛋糕,美国却不制裁印度?这是因为,印度表面上是“世界药房”,本质却是西方制药企业的活体实验室。本期我们就一起来聊聊印度仿制药的生产真相。
参考文献:
[1].Testing Drugs on India's Poor,Scott Carney,WIRED
[2].Without consent: how drugs companies exploit Indian 'guinea pigs',Andrew Buncombe、Nina Lakhani,independent
[3].Innovation, Economic Development, and Intellectual Property in India and China,Juan He,SpringerLink
[4].Indira: Great heroes make great mistakes,MJ Akbar,The Times of India
[5].Compensation for Victims of Clinical Trials: A Discussion on How Current Indian Rules and Guidelines are Hurting India,Jacob Puliyel,PubMed
[6].Selling Cheap 'Generic' Drugs, India's Copycats Irk Industry,By Donald G. McNeil Jr,The NewYork Times
[7].印度:专注仿制药四十五年,袁晓彬,网易新闻
[8].Thousands of Indians die in unethical clinical trials,Samanth Subramanian,The National News