Then, as health minister he took on two big foreign drugmakers, threatening to break the patents on their HIV drugs and getting them to cut their prices.

后来在卫生部长任内，他杠上了两大外国药厂，威胁要取消他们HIV药物的专利权，迫使他们降低价格。

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Known for his quick temper, Mr. Kan, 63, gained national attention in the mid-1990s when as health minister he exposed the use of blood tainted with H.I.V..

63岁的菅直人以耿直著称，在上个世纪九十年代中期，时任厚生省大臣的他勇敢揭穿了医疗中使用HIV污染的血液的严重事件。

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Known for his quick temper, Mr. Kan, 63, gained national attention in the mid-1990s when as health minister he exposed his own ministry's use of blood tainted with H.I.V..

以脾气暴躁而闻名的菅直人现年63岁，在90年代中期作为国家卫生部长时受到了重视，那时他曝露了自己部门(卫生部)对于受艾滋病毒污染血液的使用状况。

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Then, as health minister he took on two big foreign drugmakers, threatening to break the patents on their HIV drugs and getting them to cut their prices.

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