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the new store on work is the research driven pharmaceutical company we've developed and distributes pharmaceuticals and our mission is to improve the health and while they have people throughout the world well the mars mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of people throughout the world and when you look at the country of botswana twenty nine percent of people in botswana the adults are a tidy passive so clearly there's an epidemic in botswana mark teamed up with the bill and melinda gates foundation and the republic of botswana and we formed the botswana comprehensive each id eight partnership and the goal is to improve the overall state of each idea needs care and treatment that whole country

and what we're committed to doing as each of us were pledged fifty million dollars over the next five years to reduce the spread of aids in the country of botswana and we hope by using that program as a model we might know that helped stop the epidemic in other countries in africa and throughout the world and is an absolutely it's a new program with just recently announced during the aids com the world aids conference in durban i thought it would well in nineteen eighty seven and work institute to mark next to santa nation program and the purpose of the program is to provide nectar zahn free of charge for as long as needed to help treat river blindness and today more than twenty five million people in over thirty countries and receive

treatments for the prevention of river blindness and marcus committed to providing that madison free of charge as long as needed to prevent river blindness around the world she says merkel is it's not enough just to develop and then i create medicines we have to be or they get the medicine so the people that need them access it's really important accessing united states accessed around the world these people need that dizzy and to prevent river blindness and we're committed to providing that message to them you sure river blindness is caused by the bite of a fly and fast running streams and river areas and when people get bitten by that fly there it infected with this parasitic worm microscopic worm and what happens is that causes aging dermatitis do pigmentation and ultimately blindness and so my act as an adult dose of neckties and to prevent people from getting river blindness it's a great

story and one were very proud of that work is switching sides are looking at here is the way it is well we have a number of prescription drugs obviously that we produce not all are viable candidates to switched over the counter medications some of them are and we evaluate and determine which are and which are now the corps is one example of a drug that we believe is an appropriate switch candidate to come to over the counter status a recent survey by the national consumer late show they were out of five people surveyed favor of the availability of a nonprescription cholesterol lowering drug which never korea's on so what we do is we have over thirty years of experience in every ten million people to demonstrate the safety advocacy of havoc or as an over the counter product so we always the fda

we as an application to take this project over the counter and were in the process of seeking fda approval to do so this week it is absolutely because they get on a gang goes back to access making sure that innocent there are available to people and also when drugs go over the counter or sometimes they're used for different purposes for example have said if there is a drug that really was a prescription only drug and was used for gastrointestinal diseases now considers an over the counter medicine as well and marches for heartburn so we can use these drugs when they go over the counter for different treatment now at the long and do you think that people when they say you know this is a film it's

a piece that is it obvious cautious those concerns that it's a prescription that's one area that we really focus on what we consider drugs for over the counter medicines and one that we really really study before we even think about making an application for an over the counter medicine we make sure we test the label through focus groups to research to make sure that that those labels are very clear very concise and that people understand what that medicine this war and also the implications of taking that medicine perhaps with other medications that they're taking so it's up to pass unmarked to make sure that that labels very clear concise and easy to understand that what we do with our products it's we don't break out sales of tap said and milan so separately but what i can tell you is that we have said again more people have had access to pepsi for different treatments now considered the

calories for heartburn as opposed to gastrointestinal diseases and basically when drugstore with a counter they tend to be less expensive because they use for different purposes let's start there the science people sure i'm mark develop the merck institute for science education in nineteen ninety three and the purpose of the merck institute for science education is to improve the quality of science and mathematics education in grades k through eight for us that's important

because finds education is the lifeline of our business that's what we do with someone to make sure we have scientists unveiled on the future on but for the average person and science education is very important because we live in a very complex society are more and more technology and we need ten signed foundation regardless of what we do with our professional lives basically what happens is mark vandevelde the partnership and the local school districts were major mike major work sites are located and what we do is we work with the teachers who work with the parents are to ensure the quality of science mathematics education and we're really looking at three things one we're looking to deepen the teachers knowledge of science to were looking to support the teachers and the curriculum at the curriculum make the cripple of the batter and third were looking to promote on policies that support finds education at the local level at the national level fbi state level as well

basically fifty years ago george to be marx said madison is for the people not for the profits profits will follow and the more we will remember that there's a larger label day and i think george did you mark were alive today he would be just really proud of mark and what mark does for the people we have committed to that quote we've committed to his values ethics and his ideals where a value driven company were very ethical company and we always put people first and as a result the prophets have followed for us arms i think people don't understand with

the pharmaceutical industry and i think that's a reason why a lot of this criticism is coming forward i think a lot people don't understand that it can take up to fifteen years and five hundred million dollars to bring a drug to market i think a lot of people don't understand that once a drug gets to market seven out of ten drugs don't earn enough money to be covered the development costs i also think a lot of people don't understand that in the late nineteen eighties if you had a pioneering drug could be expected to be the leader in the market for about four or five years today that same time during drought may be a leader in the market for only a couple miles so there's tremendous risk associated with drug development tremendous costs and tremendous failure and i think people don't understand and i think that's one of the reasons why people are being created critical the pharmaceutical industry is at the same time it went to a couple of what is that i think you

know again research people are bringing drugs to the market and i think also the fact that there are more people using more medicines over population bases as the larger i think the fact that mom hospitalization is declining and drug use is increasing so there's more more reason to bring drugs to the market and more people who are out there to use our trucks thank you it's been fb

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without ever general absolutely the machine can ran during the day and during the night twenty four hours a day so yeah the productivity in the evening when everyone goes home at night that you would have from another human right or is everything that we do here is viable for the common good as well as professionally and one feels happy about what they're able to accomplish that fb fb