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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
