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This is an institution that exists solely to promote the development of health, literacy, wealth and education in the poorest two-thirds of our world. They tackle debt-relief and malaria while the rest of us navel-gaze our way through the status quo. So in my mind it doesn't matter if Harvard academics now have an opportunity through the center to communicate their ideas to and explore new solutions with Third World leaders. It doesn't matter that hundreds of students work with, research for and attend workshops given by the center. It doesn't really matter...
...begun its own AIDS-awareness programs. The bank's trainers get staff members used to talking about AIDS, safe sex and condoms by making them call out the names of body parts such as penis and vagina. "At first," says Muguro, "people were giggling and blushing. Typhoid wastes us; malaria wastes us; but this disease touches the core of humanity--our sexuality...
...comes with technological expertise and experience at running lean, efficient organizations. This new breed of philanthropist scrutinizes each charitable cause like a potential business investment, seeking maximum return in terms of social impact--for example, by counting the number of children taught to read or the number inoculated against malaria...
...Gates family--Bill, his wife Melinda and his father Bill Sr.--that means sitting down with doctors, scientists and veteran philanthropists. It means performing the research and hard-nosed analysis that Gates and Stonesifer had done for years in developing software products, but applying it instead to eradicating malaria or polio in developing countries...
...filling the breach where the private sector is not addressing a crisis. The industrialized world's ailments, from indigestion to breast cancer, are already the focus of drug-company research. Cure a First World disease, and reap millions in profits. But cure a Third World disease such as malaria--the No. 1 killer in tropical climes--and there is hardly a penny to be earned. Those patients don't have health insurance. That is why the Gates Foundation has made finding a malaria vaccine a priority, along with eradicating scourges such as hookworm, hepatitis B, leishmaniasis (a parasitic disease transmitted...