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Fact Sheet Background     * EU-India FTA negotiations began in 2007, and are scheduled to end in 2011.     * Lisbon Treaty transferred to the EU exclusive competence...

Briefing – Last updated 22 June 2011
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“Medical Innovation Prizes instead of Monopolies” Innovation Inducement Prizes that de-link the cost of R&D from the price of products to increase access to medicines for patients...

Events & Presentations – Last updated 19 May 2011
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EUROPE! HANDS OFF OUR MEDICINE India has been called the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’ – over 80% of the medicines used by Médecins Sans Frontières to treat...

Briefing – Last updated 07 April 2011
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Brussels, 7 April 2011 – As free trade agreement talks between Europe and India resume in Brussels today, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières...

Press Release – Last updated 12 July 2011
www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/europe-opens-new-front-against-affordable-medicines-trade-deal

New Delhi, 2 March 2011 – The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières marched alongside more than three thousand people living with HIV from across...

Press Release – Last updated 12 July 2011
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ALDE Group & European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases HEARING EU-India Free Trade Agreement: What future for patients in developing...

Events & Presentations – Last updated 10 February 2011
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Don't swallow this pill Jan 19, 2011, Times of India Dr. Unni Karunakara, MSF International President Are the European Union and its multinational pharmaceutical companies now pressuring...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 19 January 2011
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New Delhi, 12 January 2011 – India should resist pressure from the European Union to accept, as part of a free trade agreement, harmful provisions that will have a major negative impact on access...

Press Release – Last updated 12 July 2011
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Brussels, 10 December 2010 – As leaders from India and the European Union meet for a summit in Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – together with AIDS groups protesting...

Press Release – Last updated 12 July 2011
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Eight countries - Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and the United States – signed ACTA on 1st October 2011. The European Union and 22 of its Member States...

Briefing – Last updated 17 February 2012
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