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India's AIDS drug law fuels demonstrations

    JOHANNESBURG

    HIV-positive Ugandans at the weekend joined global demonstrations against India's proposed legislation to halt its production of cheap anti-AIDS drugs.

    Led by the National Community for People Living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA), at least 80 protesters converged on the Indian High Commission in Uganda's capital, Kampala, to present a list of their concerns.

    A local newspaper, New Vision, quoted the NACWOLA national coordinator, Annet Biryetega, as saying: "These drugs are affordable by our poor governments in Africa. Many of the people here have managed to prolong their lives because of [India's] cheap drugs. If they stop them, many people will die."

    India is one of the world's leading producer of affordable copies of patented AIDS drugs.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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