Nonprofit drug company dream now a reality

[Judi Lynn]

Nonprofit drug company dream now a reality
Former executive quit job to get needed drugs to Third World countries
By John Larson
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 2 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO - For years Dr. Victoria Hale could see the problem. The world's poorest people — from India to Africa — were dying from curable diseases while big drug companies did little to help.

Then one day she admitted to a cab driver, an African immigrant, that she worked for a big drug company.

"He rolled his head back and laughed and said, 'You all have all the money!'" she recalls.

Hale quit her job, took out a loan and began working on a crazy dream — a nonprofit drug company.

"I wanted to do something that would put the world in a new place, put it on a new path," she says.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17540025/

[bonito]

1. Wow, just wow

[China_cat]

2. What it doesn't say is that it will

(or will be allowed to) help people here at home.

Sorry to sound cynical, and I really am glad that people in other countries will get help, but I want to see the 10 year olds here at home who don't get to go to a doctor or, if they do, can't get the medicines that doctor recommends because their families can't afford them. I want to see our old people not have to choose between eating and having a roof over their heads or paying for their drugs.

[MasonJar]

3. It is so incredible to find such people in today's world. Kudos Dr. Hale!