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Seeing Like an Indian Generic Pharmaceutical Company
After 2010, two Indian generic companies started local plants in South Africa, attempted to partake in the morally loaded politics of antiretroviral therapy, and complied with broader affirmative action policies there. This article analyses a variety of sources and tries to lay bare the nexus between drug manufacturers, the state, and civil society organisations and tries to contextualise them in the anthropological theories of public health and humanitarian aid.
I thank Dilip Menon, Sharad Chari, Julia Hornberger and an anonymous reviewer of the EPW for their comments. I acknowledge financial assistance from the Ministry of Indian Overseas Affairs, Government of India.