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Patents, drug policy and Bangladesh’s pharma revolution

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This story is part of “Pills, Perils, Profits”, a Himal investigative series on Southasian pharmaceutical manufacturing and exports.Reporting for this story was

This story is part of “ Pills, Perils, Profits ”, a Himal investigative series on Southasian pharmaceutical manufacturing and exports. Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center . IN MAY 1982 , a committee of eight experts submitted a report to Bangladesh’s health ministry proposing an overhaul of the country’s drug regulation regime. At the time, Bangladesh was almost entirely reliant on imports for its pharmaceutical needs, just like many poor countries in Southasia and beyond continue to be today. Most medicines on the market were expensive, and often-unsafe cocktails of

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