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Article: Indian American leads Clinton Foundation anti-malaria drive
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- The Hindustan Times
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- September 5, 2008
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New York, Sept. 5 -- Inder Singh, the Indian American director of the Clinton Foundation's Drug Access Programme, has come into the limelight for negotiating a landmark deal between the foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative and four Indian as well as two Chinese firms to produce affordable malaria drugs for millions of sufferers in 70 countries of the world.
"We completed agreements with suppliers at all levels of the production chain. These agreements are structured to reduce the volatility of the key raw ingredient of these drugs, a plant-derived material called artemisinin," Singh has been quoted as saying.
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