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Patents & patients / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; produced and directed by Joost de Haas.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 3 ; 9.
- Life ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cipla.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--India.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Treatment--India.
- HIV infections.
- AIDS vaccines--India.
- AIDS vaccines.
- Antiviral agents industry--India.
- Antiviral agents industry.
- Pharmaceutical industry--India.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Generic drugs.
- HIV infections--Treatment.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment.
- India.
- Generic drugs--India.
- Drugs--Patents.
- Drugs.
- Globalization--Social aspects--India.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Patents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (23 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Dr. Yusuf Hamied, Managing Director of the Indian drug company Cipla, thinks the Indian government should put the country 'on a war footing' to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic that threatens his country. As evidence, he cites the 3500 new HIV/AIDS cases that are reported almost daily in India, as well as statistics suggesting that this year the total number of infected Indians may reach 35 million. But there is another battle being fought, this one over how to deal with the pandemic in developing countries like India: a battle over the patents held on the anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) known to prolong the lives--and minimize the suffering--of HIV sufferers the world over. Cipla produces generic copies of ARVs whose patents officially belong to pharmaceutical giants like Bristol Myers Squibb and GlaxoSmithKline. But without a proper health infrastructure to monitor patients and ensure the drugs are properly administered, India faces the risk of a drug-resistant HIV explosion, a new epidemic that will lead to even more deaths and misery.
- Participant:
- Commentary: Steve Bradshaw ; with Yusuf Hamied, Alka Deshpande, Jan Raaijmakers.
- Credits:
- Series editor, Jenny Richards.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE, ©2002; previously released in 2003.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l3pap Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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