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After selling a soccer Web site to ESPN for $40 million eight years ago, former Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Tom D. Hadfield ’08 has now set his sights on fighting malaria in Africa...
...Cycle of Illness In the past few years, diseases such as dengue fever, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia "have returned in force or have developed a stubborn resistance to drugs," according to a report on health care in India by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers. "This troubling trend can be attributed in part to substandard housing, inadequate water, sewage and waste management systems, a crumbling public health infrastructure, and increased air travel." Pylore Krishnaier Rajagopalan, who was head of the government Vector Control Research Centre in the southern city of Pondicherry between 1975 and 1990, blames policies that concentrate on the latest...
...hundreds of miles around. About 60% of the 4,500 patients the hospital sees every day travel not from the New Delhi area but from neighboring states. Some of them are complicated cases that have rightly been referred to a tertiary-care hospital, but many are simple cases of malaria or dengue fever that other hospitals should treat easily. "The challenge is that our facilities are totally at saturation point," says Dr. Nishith K. Chaturvedi, the hospital's medical superintendent. "If states were doing a better job it would cut our case load...
...harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion in all. Such a fund could fight hunger as effectively as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is controlling those diseases...
...their health care potential and better assist the poor. The internationally acclaimed professor colored his account with anecdotes and images, interspersing them throughout his presentation. At one point, he characterized an emaciated man on screen as “suffering from the two diseases you’d expect, malaria and tuberculosis, [and] suffering from a third disease, poverty.” Farmer emphasized that comprehensive health care would have to come alongside socioeconomic support, saying more political will is necessary for the future success of such endeavors. He pointed out that access to education, job creation, housing, and other...