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...regular readers of TIME know, Sachs is one of the world's most distinguished economists, a man who has guided countries from Bolivia to Poland through bad financial times, advised the Pope on Third World debt relief and helped launch the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens. In writing The End of Poverty, Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight...
...misery on such a terrible scale? Ever since our universe was formed billions of years ago, powerful superhuman forces (earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, etc.) have been at work. If people question why God allows such geophysical events to occur periodically, they should also question why he allows malaria, malnutrition and waterborne diseases to take millions of lives every year. We should not believe God will intervene in every cataclysmic event. That is tantamount to expecting the total elimination of all natural disasters, all risk, all danger and the instant banishment of poverty and sickness. That will happen...
...Indonesia's Health Ministry moved 50,000 of the people on its missing list to the fatalities column, bringing the total there to 166,320. Although the waves have long receded, the tsunami still threatens. For survivors in crowded, unsanitary refugee camps, normally treatable illnesses such as cholera, dysentery, malaria and measles can quickly become mass murderers. So great is the danger that Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's (WHO) head of crisis operations, initially warned that the death toll from disease could rival that of the tsunami itself...
...almost a month after the tsunami hit, those feared epidemics have yet to strike. Waterborne diarrheal diseases have been staved off through good sanitation and hygiene, aggressive insecticide use has kept malaria and dengue fever to a minimum, and meticulous surveillance has contained contagious illnesses. The battle against disease isn't over, but the medical response to the tsunami is shaping up to be a surprising success story for the field of emergency public health. "The situation is still evolving, still dynamic, but I think we are well prepared," says Dr. Jai Narain, the WHO's Southeast Asia regional adviser...
...Dana Van Alphen, the WHO's team leader in Banda Aceh. In Aceh, much of which remained partially flooded after the tsunami, teams built raised latrines to prevent waste from contaminating the water used by refugee camps. Medical workers were also quick to spray camps for mosquitoes, which transmit malaria and dengue fever. These diseases are endemic to the region, especially at this time of the year, and the brackish pools of water left by the tsunami are perfect breeding grounds for the insects...