Cipla is an Indianpharmaceutical company, best-known for manufacturing cheap anti-AIDS drugs. The company was founded in 1935 by Khwaja Abdul Hamied, and is today run by Yusuf Hamied. A pharmaceutical company (or drug company) is a company licensed to discover, develop, market and distribute drugs. ... The Red Ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is defined as a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the depletion of the immune system caused... á 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Yusuf Hamied is founder of Cipla. ...
Cipla ignores the patents on these drugs, but no Indian law is broken in the process. With Cipla drugs, the cost of treating an AIDS patient has been reduced from $12,000 to $300 per year, still out of reach for most Indians. The customary treatment of AIDS consists of a cocktail of three drugs. Cipla produces an all-in-one pill called Lamivudine which contains all three substances, something difficult elsewhere because the three patents are held by different companies. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and...
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