Vidya Krishnan > Quotes

“No one is safe until everyone is.”
― Vidya Krishnan, The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

“By 2020, the revenue of the global pharmaceutical market was US$1.27 trillion, of which the North American market share was 48.7 percent. The EU has a 14 percent share.4 African nations, which were suffering the worst of the HIV epidemic, accounted for 0.7 percent of the global pharmaceutical market. Despite being the worst affected, the African continent remained on the sidelines during the first two decades of the HIV response.”
― Vidya Krishnan, Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

“Relying on charity to solve global health is like placing a Band-Aid on a malignant tumor and expecting the patient to recover.”
― Vidya Krishnan, The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History