Millions of AIDS patients could die if India restricts the production of generic drugs

Millions of AIDS patients "very poor" would die if India restricts the production of generic drugs against this sickness under the trade agreement with the European Union is currently negotiating , warned on Tuesday as the Joint United Nations Program for HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS).

In an interview with Reuters, the executive director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe, has warned that "millions will die if India can not produce" such cheap drugs and pointed to Africa "as the most affected" by this decision. The fact that about 86 percent of individuals treated for receiving AIDS drugs manufactured in India, says, makes this issue "in a matter of life or death." Therefore, Sidibé has explained, "India must resist to eliminate any flexibility, since any trade agreement that could lead to India" to limit their production capacity, will have "dire" consequences "for the rest of the world." India and EU are trading at today, a free trade agreement.

Russia bans imports of vegetables from Spain and Germany

Moscow. .- Russia announced a ban from today's vegetable imports from Spain and Germany following the outbreak of an intestinal infection that the German authorities initially blamed a party of Spanish cucumbers. "If the situation does not change, banned all European vegetables," said Gennady Onischenko, Russian medical chief, told Interfax.

According to Germany, the outbreak of a variant of intestinal bacteria E. coli has caused 13 deaths and about 1,200 are affected. "We ask people not to buy fresh vegetables from Germany and Spain. To buy domestic products," said Onischenko, adding it has also been ordered to withdraw from sale all vegetable stocks of these two European countries.