Twinvir directly from Incepta cost what?

My post earlier about India trying to enter into RCEP was just trying to shed some light as to why this action has been taken.

Hopefully I am wrong, and shipments will continue. I tried to find an article I read about Gilead’s strategy in India, but don’t seem to be able to find it. Gilead’s strategy in allowing Indian companies to produce the meds was to allow the truly poor of the world to access meds, but also to be able to keep control of exports to “rich” countries like USA. Gilead requires an Indian doctor to issue an RX for a reason; apparently they are able to get information about the country of origin of the buyer, so that they can see if a reseller is exporting where they should not be and then contact the manufacturer to have them cut off from supply. I’m sure bulk exports to the 91 countries Gilead deems poor will continue.

This direct intervention by the Indian customs is an escalation in strategy, or perhaps based on the RCEP agreement, as the countries in RCEP overlap TPP countries, with some in both agreements. So the requirements may be similar concerning trade.

Gilead will accept medical tourism to India; it will still be possible to travel to India and get an RX and meds there. Obviously, that is much more expensive and bothersome.

Hi everyone, I find it interesting that other meds, ie Redemption ones are getting delivered. Maybe the amount of sellers has become a safety concern to the authorities and they are trying to keep an eye on things. It wouldn’t look good on India if they were not seen to have at least some controls in place maybe, eg legitimate sellers, prescriptions and that kind of thing? It would only take one thing to go wrong and it could throw their whole stance on patents / access to meds up in the air and subsequently sick patients could suffer in the future.

Also, maybe the international courrier services are tightening up on rules too? I suspect big pharma wouldn’t have to do much except sit back with grins on their faces as the whole thing collapses due to some parties breaking Indian law and not doing things properly. Who would suffer in the end? Those untreated.

As I have said before, I personally chose to go through Redemption / MonkMed because there is an official trial, paperwork all done correctly and legally. This also gave my NHS Drs the extra confidence to support me by way of monitoring, when for many of us, the cost of private monitoring is totally prohobitative, especially in the UK. If the big picture is, to help poor people get access to life saving medicines, then I feel collectively, maybe we should all think about how not to jeopodise all the good work that has been done this far. If this sounds really ‘preachy’ – I don’t mean it that way, I know so many hearts are so totally in the right place, but maybe food for thought?

I really feel for those people whose meds are caught up or delayed, it must be very distressing, I will never forget the feeling of hope when I followed my own little parcel across the world by way of FedEx tracking.

I am not on the Facebook thing, but would again advise those who are freaking out, to seek medications through a trusted reliable source who make sure all the relevant paperwork and legalities are in order. after all, It’s not expensive to get a prescription any more, although quality shipping is a little more!

(edit) and as an added thought, to show respect towards one of the countries that have made our own access to medicines possible at all.

My understanding of Gilead’s Indian agreement was to allow patients who lived in countries
with low incomes had access to these drugs part of the same agreement would be they don’t
sell to Europeans or Americans via shipping. I think I recall at one point they wanted to restrict
anyone from outside India traveling to India to also be restricted that fell by the wayside.

The trials are researching generics and as such don’t fall into the legal agreements
I mentioned above-its not a shock that Gilead would try and stop this via pressure on
customs in India.

Obviously, I don’t agree at all with any restrictions am simply putting forth the reasons why I think
this is occurring, I don’t think anything they do will stop leakage its too late for that now.

I WROTE IF ONE PORT IS CLOSED ANOTHER is open. So no Chennai than its Mumbai just a matter of time

Good points V!
Like I say: Follow the money. I am still not certain what is happening in India. Seems there are conflicting reports. It just seems odd that FedEx AND DHL would both stop handling these shipments at the same time in the same country. As far as I know, FedEx and DHL have been shipping products from other source countries far longer than India and continue to do so.
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