Call For India Compulsory Licenses For Last Resort TB Drugs
Executive Summary
Public health campaigners in India and globally are pushing the government to allow Indian generic firms to make cheap copies of two new-generation, last resort antibiotics for drug-resistant tuberculosis through the use of patent-busting compulsory licenses.
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