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Here's a quick quiz: what's the world's No. 1 killer? It's not AIDS, TB or malaria. The world's deadliest disease is heart disease, which kills nearly 18 million people a year. Once considered predominantly an affliction of the wealthy, the prevalence of heart disease has been growing in the developing world - 80% of heart-disease deaths now occur in low- and middle-income countries, which has got global health workers and epidemiologists considering better ways to screen, track and treat the illness...
...Amazon in search of exotic feathers for his mother's hat business back in London. That was a failure, like everything else he tried, but he caught the Amazon bug, and 10 years later he pulled off the one spectacular success of his life. In defiance of malaria, anacondas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, Confederate colonists, customs inspectors and Yanomamo tribesmen, he smuggled 70,000 priceless rubber-tree seeds out of Brazil and back to England...
...Darfur organization he helped found, Not on Our Watch, has given away more than $9 million. But now, just three weeks back from having a 14-year-old border guard shove a machine gun at his chest, after recovering from malaria, after helicoptering out of N'Djamena, Chad, in a sandstorm three days before the rebels sacked it, he wonders if his critics are right, if this scheme to use celebrity to bring attention to the world's plights isn't, if not vanity, at least striving after wind. "I've been very depressed since I got back...
...Bush told reporters he wanted to draw attention to some of the success stories on a continent all too often considered one big disaster zone. The visit was about "heralding good leadership, it's heralding honest government and is focusing our help on local folks' efforts to deal with malaria and AIDS," he said...
...President also led a $1.2 billion initiative to fight malaria, focusing on low-tech solutions such as bed nets, and, along with other leading industrialized nations, has granted $34 billion in debt relief for African nations in the past 18 months. While warning that proposed changes to PEPFAR's priorities, including dropping a requirement that 55% of funding be spent on medical care, could "cut the heart out of this life-saving AIDS care and treatment program," the AIDS Healthcare Foundation acknowledged PEPFAR was "widely expected to be among the President's most lasting and favorable legacies...