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If the Gates Foundation nail malaria and other diseases of poverty then he should.
by adw 17y ago
If the Gates Foundation nail malaria and other diseases of poverty then he should.
- pmjordan 17y agoI wouldn't really call malaria a "disease of poverty" - it's a bad idea to take the most effective prophylactic indefinitely (it's an antibiotic), and it can have plenty of side effects - and it's nowhere near 100% effective. (coincidentally, I've been taking it for the last 3 weeks) So non-poor people who live in affected regions can't keep on taking it either and therefore can and do catch malaria. It is treatable if caught early enough (I guess this is your poverty angle?) but anything but pleasant even if treatment is successful. Moreover, once you've had it, it can come back anytime during the rest of your life, rich or poor. Of course, that makes it no less of a problem, and curing it once and for all would certainly be prizeworthy.