Interview with health activist Anjali Gopalan
May 2016
Cancer many people are dying because of the lack of morphine. They are dying in such awful pain because for some reason the government does not want to give morphine in most cases. I think the situation is pretty bad.

Anjali Gopalan is the Founder and Executive Director of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, a Delhi-based NGO dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS.Anjali has been the recipient of many prestigious awards for her work and in 2012, Time magazine included Anjali on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The lessons learnt in the 1990s from securing access to antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV and AIDS highlight the role of patients in demanding better access to life-saving medicines. As India, like many other growing economies, faces new, deadly diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease, Anjali Gopalan, founder of the Naz Foundation considers the challenges ahead for India’s health system and its citizens.
Today if someone comes to me and says they have HIV I am far more relieved than if someone came and told me that they have cancer.