MSF India Presents: Why Medicines Shouldn't Be A Luxury

What if life-saving medicines were too expensive and you went without? Put people before patents and profits. A panel discussion held on 28 November at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, featuring Eldrid Tellis, the Director Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, an organization that provides care, medical support, and counseling to street-based injecting drug users; Dr Homa Mansoor, the TB Medical Referent for MSF India, who has been treating HIV patients co-infected with drug resistant tuberculosis at MSF's Mumbai Clinic for over five years; and Dylan Mohan Gray, the Director/Producer of Fire in the Blood, a film that exposes how patents enabled Western pharmaceutical corporations to increase their profits while millions of people in the developing world lost their lives. Dr Unni Karunakara, MSF International President 2010-2013 -- in Mumbai as part of the 'unnicycles' tour, a 5000km bicycle journey from Kashmir to Kerala in support of MSF -- moderated the discussion between the panelists and the Q&A.