Tag: Yusuf Hamied
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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.
Yusuf Hamied
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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.
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Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.
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As long as I can contribute, I’ll continue working.
Yusuf Hamied
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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I want it to be said when I leave this world that ‘he was not just a money-making machine.’
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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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.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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