she created a non-profit global drug company. to take health care affordable for the lowest casts of India. she called them the line at the base of the pyramid. the diesese that they wanted to erradicate was kala-azar. it was an incredible job. bill and melindaa gates have commited to erradicating malaria and she is part of this effort.

some of the greatest obsticles has been human intervention and/or lack of action. she also pointed out that HOW you do your work is even more important than the what. the HOW will really determine the true magnitude of the impact.

poor people have no voince in this industry. there are so many diseases in the world that are killing hundres of thousands of individuals who are at the base of the pyramid and the global drug companies are not working on these. the reason is simple - no profit in this area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Hale
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