Affordable Healthcare

CSIR has set incredible benchmarks in making the health care affordable for the common man. It has achieved several landmarks in the field of pharmaceuticals, drugs and made many scientific discoveries in the field of Biological Science, Cancer Control, Study of Genetic Diversity, Developing therapeutic strategies to tackle leishmaniasis are to name a few.

But for technologies from the CSIR the once costliest drugs could not have become the globally cheapest; consistently working on affordable life saving drug development for the poor at a global level, the CSIR has developed several processes and knowhow. It is worth mentioning that eleven out of the fourteen new drugs developed in India are from CSIR. Some of them are anti malarial drugs –– Elubaquine & Arteether, technology for oral insulin and hepatitis B vaccine, anti-HIV cocktail etc.