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15000 USD/pt/yr seems to be a cost of phase 3 drug trial in a wealthy (western) nation. there has been a boom in conducting human trials across developing nations , through private contractors. A search for 'drug trials in developing nations' returns millions of links , including reputable sources like bbc and pbs. I will let you pick the best ones :) per capita income in india is 12000 usd/yr. there is no way, a drug firm will spend 15k usd in a place like that to perform human trials.Do remember that 12000 usd is the average income. the rural poor are some of the poorest in that world. you can safely assume that the cost of a drug trial in countries like india is much much lower. Indian poor have also been a test bed for human clinical trials. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20136654

Drug companies use poor as guinea pigs , marking up the price for wealthy nations and worst of all , prevent life saving care for billions of people. some on whom the drugs were tested on. So, there is more than one reason this victory is sweet for the developing nations.

p.s sorry about the multiple edits..