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"The world spent about $97.9 billion in the years since 1994 trying to develop
new tools to fight infectious diseases in poor countries. That includes things
like vaccines, treatments, diagnosis tools, and preventative tools like bed
nets for diseases like malaria.
That sounds like a lot of money, and it is. But Policy Cures Research, the
organization that came up with that number, also tried to estimate the benefit
that this research generated. They got a dollar figure there, too: $49.7
trillion. The full investment will avert, the report finds, about 40.7 million
total deaths between the years 2000 and 2040.
These are big claims that deserve scrutiny. But they hold up.
The finding is particularly important at a moment when key institutions like
the World Health Organization, the vaccine fund Gavi, and the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria are all conducting fundraising drives,
ones that world leaders have yet to respond to with adequate investment. The
resistance is understandable (these are big sums) but short-sighted.
There are massive gains to be won by investing more to develop cures,
treatments, and vaccines for the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. We just
have to do it."
Via
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
