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The conference room at the Conrad was filled with silence. Everyone was confused because it was such an outlandish idea.
Tedros was the first one to speak and break the silence.
“First of all, our organization does not seek profit,” he said. “The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the UN for healthcare. It is our job to guide and coordinate international health affairs to ultimately improve health universally. Your project to eradicate HIV… Of course we will do it. But what I’m curious about is…”
Tedros bit his lip.
“Is that really possible? You said you would eradicate HIV, but the idea of making a vaccine is shocking, but to lower the production cost to 0.1 percent of the current treatment?”
“Both ideas are possible. We will develop the vaccine using the facilities at A-Gen and start clinical trials this year. Karamchand can produce the treatment in mass quantities.”
“About that treatment. You said it was called Karampia? The one we are selling.” Sachet interrupted and asked.
“Yes,” Young-Joon replied.
“You said that you will synthesize the drug within yeast cells?”
“To be exact, we are only extracting and using the materials involved in the polymerization system in the yeast cell.”
Sachet was lost in thought. Karampia was a replica drug of Fuzeon, Roche’s AIDS treatment. It interfered with the mechanism of the cell membrane and the structure on the surface of...
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