Tell your MP to defend access to medicines in the UK-India deal

A leaked draft chapter of the UK-India trade negotiations shows that the British government is pressuring India to adopt rules that would drive up medicines prices.

If agreed, the UK’s demands would threaten the NHS and have a devastating impact on public health across the world.

We need to stop this. Ask your MP to help stop these proposals.

The government’s apparent plan is to push through stricter intellectual property (IP) rules on India that would shore up big pharma’s medicine monopolies and drive up the price of cheap generic medicines produced in India. This won’t just harm the global south – a quarter of all medicines used in the NHS come from India’s successful generics industry.

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