Under pressure: India’s progressive IP policies

India, with its progressive public health policies and patent laws, has long been known as the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’. With good reason: more than 96% of the antiretroviral medicines used to treat HIV purchased by donors for developing country treatment programmes are Indian-sourced generics. At Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we rely heavily on Indian generics to support the treatment of more than 200,000 people living with HIV/AIDS.