Why would a developed country like the USA allow access to life-saving medicine to be restricted by greed?
I was so heartened to learn of India's commitment to providing generic HIV drugs: "India is committed to ... ensure the availability of affordable and quality medicine to all people living with HIV," Deputy Permanent Representative Bhagwant S. Bishnoi told a UN General Assembly (in 2015).
So I was wondering, is India now a developed country, to make such a wonderful commitment? A Google search, however, shows that India is considered a medium developed country. Further, there is even an index for human development (HDI), and I couldn't even find India there! From Wikipedia's article on Developed Country,
'Unlike GDP per capita or per capita income, the HDI takes into account how income is turned "into education and HEALTH opportunities and therefore into higher levels of human development." ' (My emphasis.)
What happened to the USA, what is going wrong here? Here is more from Dan's article...
India's contribution to making available life-saving AIDS medications affordable has been hailed by UN bodies and international organisations like Doctors Without Borders. They have rallied support for India continuing to make generic drugs.
Doctors Without Borders has estimated that the availability of generic medications have brought down the cost of a year's treatment from $10,000 to under $80.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-says-it-will-continue-providing-affordable-aids-medicine-115060901165_1.html