It is also offering Burma the same trade privileges that other low-income countries get.
Businesses in low-income countries struggle with twice the burden of regulation as those in high-income countries.
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Many low-income countries have less than one mental health specialist per one million population, according to the WHO.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the global financial crisis will have a "major impact, " on low-income countries.
These are cheaper and more sustainable options for governments in low-income countries for the basic, off-patent medicines that are needed.
Branded companies played a role by issuing more and more voluntary licenses and by refraining from seeking patents in many low-income countries.
More importantly, prices of many domestic products, from housing to haircuts, are always cheaper in low-income countries, implying that households' real spending power is bigger.
"For advanced countries, more imports today are coming from middle- and low-income countries, " says Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, a former Bush White House adviser.
Furthermore, almost all low-income countries with available data highlight a wide disparity in antibiotic use for suspected childhood pneumonia between the poorest and richest sections of the population.
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But by this gauge, the currencies of virtually all low-income countries are undervalued, since prices are generally lower in these countries than in rich ones (see right-hand chart, above).
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The country can serve as an example for other low-income countries in South Asia, Africa and Latin America, where innovations that work in India are likely to work as well.
However, the report says that prices remain "too high" for low-income countries, and that even if they could afford the drugs, their crumbling health infrastructures offer no means to distribute them effectively.
In a recent report, " The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries, " the Fund singled out sub-Saharan Africa as particularly vulnerable to the crisis, as lower global growth reduces export demand and depresses commodity prices.
But if further study confirms that very early treatment can cure HIV-infected newborns, it could spur widespread use of such an aggressive regimen in babies born with HIV, nearly all of them in low- and middle-income countries.
In recent years there have been substantial gains in the number of people receiving life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries, totalling 4 million by December 2008, which represents an increase of 1 million from the previous year.
The solution, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said, is increasing production and productivity in the low-income, food-deficit countries.
In 2011, it is now a global top five vaccine manufacturer in terms of volume 80% of its products go to UNICEF and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) to immunize children in low and middle-income countries.
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This allows for Facebook to reach many low-income groups in countries like India that cannot afford a laptop, smartphone or tablet.
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And it says about eight million people in low and middle-income countries are getting the treatment they need, up from just 0.4 million in 2003.
Not surprisingly, 84 percent of deaths due to eating too much sodium occurred in low and middle-income countries where access to fresher, less preserved foods is more difficult and prohibitively expensive.
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Multinationals such as Google are highly skilled at reducing their U.S. tax bill to near-zero, in part by shifting income to low-tax countries.
But to win the battle against NCDs in many low- and middle-income countries, we need more than medicines.
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In low- and middle-income countries, more than 8 million people living with HIV are now receiving antiretroviral therapy.
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The study authors note that the majority of people flying out of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are traveling to other low- or middle-income countries.
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However, we must do much more to ensure that the over 5 million people needing antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries gain access to it.
However, low- and middle-income countries were devastated by the pandemic.
Though we think of NCDs as diseases of more affluent societies, some 80 percent of all NCDs today occur in low- and middle-income countries, due largely to changing lifestyles.
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In low- and middle-income countries, where public resources are especially tight, regulatory constraints have made it difficult to quickly and efficiently test, approve, and ensure the quality of medicines that people need.
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Throughout the Middle East, the public sector's share of the economy is among the highest in the world, at 32% of GDP, compared with 20% of GDP for other low- and middle-income countries.
Almost half of all pregnant women living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries received antiretrovirals to prevent mother-to-child transmission, and more children living with HIV are benefiting from treatment and care programmes than ever before.
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