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" AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. "
AIDS
Today
Illness
" Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle. "
Fundamental
Principle
Suffering
" As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working. "
I Can
Working
Long
" Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu. "
Effective
Flu
Cheaper
" Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973. "
Take
Team
Strong
" Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful. "
Grateful
Be Grateful
Always
" Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies. "
Country
India
Right
" I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention. "
Believe
I Believe
Royalty
" I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives. "
People
Believe
You
" If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse. "
World
Decide
Industry
" If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices. "
Today
World
Respect
" 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. "
Me
India
Help
" 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. "
Mistake
Own
Healthcare
" I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.' "
Leave
Just
Want
" My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject. "
Father
Me
Never
" 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. "
Ride
Never
India
" 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.' "
Suffering
Day
Me
" Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move. "
Price
Move
Humanitarian
" Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself. "
Education
Place
Support
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