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As far as I know, this is not true anywhere in the world. What drugs out there have had their development and trials fully (or majority) funded by governments, either in Europe or---apropos here---India?


Huge, huge amounts of drug discovery is funded by governments[0] around the world. Pharmaceutical companies step in to fund the trials after the promising results come out. A lot of the trials take place in India under ethically concerning conditions[1].

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50972/

[1] http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-010808/en/




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