(Bloomberg) The world is losing its fight against malaria, a disease that has a devastating toll in Asia and Africa and is showing up in developed countries like the US. A single business decision taken by one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of bed nets more than 10 years ago has exacerbated the situation.Most Read from BloombergNvidia Surges After AI Boom Shows No Signs of Letting UpTech Up in Late Hours on Nvidia’s Bullish Outlook: Markets WrapBiden Touts $1.2 Billion in Student Loan R
so they re not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. so we re by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs. ..a vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life that s purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyjust don t know what to do with this cash? i not only want to put the money in, but i want to put my time in and assemble people so we can learn, you know, what health systems work, which ones don t. i, you know, find the work very fulfilling. i get to learn new things. get to go to interesting places.
more effective malaria vaccines are in the pipeline, including one developed by oxford university. bed nets, insecticides and antimalarial treatments will also continue to play a crucial role in tackling this ancient scourge which, despite today s positive news, is farfrom being defeated. fergus walsh, bbc news. earlier i spoke to the chief of you s malaria initiative. this is the first you s malaria initiative. this is the first vaccine you s malaria initiative. this is the first vaccine to - you s malaria initiative. ti 3 is the first vaccine to help reduce the risk of deadly severe malaria by 30% in young children in sub saharan africa where malaria remains a leading killer. i was born in liberia and i have area several times as a child stopping my mother would have been relieved if this additional way of protection had been around back then you are right, this is not a silver bullet. the vaccine has been shown to make the
giving three vaccines just after birth, and then 18 months, and another vaccine, it has shown in combination with other things like prophylactics and bed nets to stop mosquitoes from biting at night, this has up to 70% efficacy to stop severe disease. and, you know, more than a quarter of a million children die from malaria each year in africa. and that impact has lasted generations. this is also a very innovative move. the first time a parasitic disease like this has shown to be stopped in its tracks to a large degree by a vaccine. so this is really good news after so many months of bad news on how, i have to say, this is something they ve been waiting for a long time. and it could roll out very soon. christine? it certainly is an exciting development, scientific development. david mackenzie, thank you so much for that. we ll be right back. neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus.