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Like many committed health professionals in the developing world, Akunyili brings an almost messianic zeal to her work. "Drug faking or counterfeiting is the greatest evil of our time," she says. "Malaria can be prevented, HIV/AIDS can be avoided and armed robbery may kill a few at a time, but fake drugs kill en masse...
...fleet to include refrigerated trucks, minivans and ambulances. Zimbabwe is one of the group's showcase countries, with 1,000 vehicles, each of which is responsible for delivering health care to a region that may contain 20,000 patients. In the country's Binga district alone, deaths from malaria plunged 20% thanks to the ability of motorcycles to deliver mosquito-resistant bed nets and keep health-care workers mobile. As the Colemans have shown, when you keep workers mobile, you keep people alive...
...wards, the beds are filled by patients with AIDS, TB, malaria, typhoid, cholera, malnutrition and anemia. Some will die. Most will be cured. All will be treated with as much care and attention--if not more--as is afforded wealthy patients at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where Farmer has joint appointments. He calls this approach the "preferential option for the poor...
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS 212-679-6800 www.doctorswithoutborders.org From Africa to Asia to Latin America, from AIDS to malaria to acute starvation, the medical staff of this Nobel Peace Prize--winning organization has seen--and treated...
...governments can do, what charities can do, what heroes can do when they have the resources they need. In a year when we grieved for the people we could not save, maybe we search harder for those we can. You can't stop an earthquake; but you can stop malaria, say the experts, if you just spend the money to do it. And malaria is like an earthquake that kills more than 80,000 every month...