Since joining this industry in 1999, one constant has always been true: we as a race get sick in many ways and we as an industry help to mitigate the effects of these illnesses.
I know that pharma gets a bad press, which leads to Netflix shows and the like, but I genuinely believe that the numbers needed to treat for pharma outweigh the numbers needed to harm.
Growing up in the eighties, I vividly remember the safe sex campaigns that warned of the dangers of HIV/AIDS. The tombstone adverts, the celebrities who contracted HIV/AIDS, the stigma around who would contract it and the tawdriness of the how. I remember the playground misinformation that led to a pervasive fear of this hitherto incurable virus.
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