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Published online 15 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070115-1
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Petition aims to maintain cheap drugs
Court case in India threatens to derail generic medicines.
The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) is ramping up their fight against the Swiss drug giant Novartis, urging the company to drop a lawsuit that could make it much more difficult for Indian companies to produce cheap, generic drugs.
With the case expected to come up for hearing on 29 January, MSF is pumping up efforts to collect signatures on a petition against the suit.
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