When people living with rare diseases and their loved ones come together, they can forge a path towards a cure.

 

Panel 1: A man in a corporate suit tells a woman in a wheelchair, "There isn't enough profit to create medicine for your rare disease." The wall behind him reads "BIG PHARMA."

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Panel 2: The same woman speaks to two other women in wheelchairs, saying, "Unless we take action ourselves, there will never be a treatment for our rare disease." One woman raises her fist in determination

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Panel 3: Split diagonally. On one side, a woman scientist reads a monitor displaying, "XYZ RARE DISEASE PATIENT GROUP seeks committed scientists and pharma to develop a drug." On the other, a suited woman, identified as Meera M.B.A., CEO, reads a pamphlet stating, "Seeking funds from corporate donors to develop treatment."

 

Panel 4: Years later, a nurse joyfully shows a newspaper to a bedridden patient with an oxygen line. The headline reads, "XYZ RARE DISEASE DEFEATED; breakthrough treatment reverses disease." The patient smiles.