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.’ Yuna Read Quote
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention. Yuna Read Quote
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973. Yuna Read Quote
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. Yuna Read Quote
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. Yuna Read Quote
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. Yuna Read Quote
