as outlined in a state of for the record a number of terrorist groups remain active in sub-saharan africa including al-shabaab, al-qaeda in the islamic, boko haram, als also kn as the islamic state west africa province. regional military forces with the united states and international assistance have made progress against all of these terrorist groups. terrorists a savings and somalia, northern mali and the lake chad basin have been degraded significantly. however, in the face of this pressure these groups have shifted to go asymmetric tactics including attacks against soft targets. we've seen this dynamic in west africa recently. over the recent months aqim have carried out a series of attacks against international hotels and tourist sites, and mali and other places killing scores of people including an american citizen. similarly in east africa we sing shabaab become increasingly aggressive enforcement attacks against high profile targets in somalia and across the border in kenya. we are concerned by the risk that isil prices that go in the continent. as we've seen elsewhere in the worl

the extent to which climate change is playing a role in the migrations that we're seeing in sub-saharan africa? >> sure. i think we see that the horn of africa and the sahel, not surprisingly, are huge areas of where we are seeing the largest numbers of refugee movements right now. and i'll just say internally displaced persons as well, because even though people aren't necessarily leaving their borders, they're definitely moving out. when we see the uptick in instability in somalia, for instance, we are even seeing people willing to get on boats to go across to yemen, which we know hasn't been secure at all. a lot of that is because people know that they're not secure or safe. and when we do our surveys, we've seen time after time that when people don't feel secure and safe, they will move across borders. they also move across borders when not only they don't feel secure and safe, but they don't feel that there is any opportunity for them to exist on their own in the country of origin. so we've seen situations where even when insecurity is paramount, such as in the democratic republic of cong

today the senate foreign relations committee held a hearing on counterterrorism efforts in sub-saharan africa. they heard testimony from officials representing the state department and the united nations. senator bob corker of tennessee is the chair. it's two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations]

and two weeks later he called and asked if i would go with him on a trip he was planning to sub-saharan, africa in november of '82. i said this is great but since i am not a governor what would my role be and he said to be honest with you, we don't have an andy young in our administration and i don't feel like i can go to sub-saharan, africa without prominent african-americans in my delegation. you would do me a favor but the country a service if you were willing to do it. i appreciated his honesty and i went. on the trip was barbara bush who was speaking to literacy groups and on the way back, after two weeks and visiting eight countries in sub-saharan africa i spoke to barbara on the plane and said you and are in the same business different branches. we are new school and need someone like you on our board. would you be willing to consider it? she accepted and came on the board in january of '83 and my wife and i were being invited to things at the vice president's home and got to know them well. one of my trustees wanted to be secretary. but when bush was elected rather than taking my truste

the overall trends in sub-saharan africa point to accelerated democratization -- sorry democratization, development and economic opportunity. although africa remains the world's least developed continent, average, real, per capita income increased steadily over the last decade and a half. however, in spite of these positive trends, instability and conflict persist in parts of africa. this instability has a direct bearing on u.s. national interests and those of our closest allies. terrorists, narcotic traffickers and a range of transnational criminal organizations exploit state from jilt and conflict. conflict destabilizes states and borders, it stifles economic growth, and it robs young africans of the opportunity for education and a better life. while attacks in brussels and paris and even in san bernardino offer tragic reminders that terrorism can happen anywhere, africa has critical vulnerabilities and capacity gaps that must be addressed. therefore, we're working with our african partners to increase their a abilities, to prevent and respond to such threats and to address the condi

terrorist activity in sub-saharan africa over the past decade threatens to destabilize the continent and roll back some of the gains and broaden politic political space and participation since the third wave of democracy that began in the 1990s. groups such as boca haram and the maghreb in northern mali and sahel have caused tens of thousands of deaths and tremendous economic and social dislocations. for civilian populations. some of this extremist organizations operating in africa are eager to establish alliances with violent extremist organizations in other parts of the world, notably al qaeda and the islamic state of iraq and syria isis. the international community's right in supporting counterterrorism efforts that seek to defeat this extremist groups militarily and must at the same time assist the affected countries to address the root causes and triggers of the rise in extremism and violence. the principal motivation of today's terrorists in sub-saharan africa is deeply rooted in a pattern of religious beliefs. however, it is noteworthy that governance failures have exacerbated

the overall trends in sub-saharan africa point to accelerated -- sorry, democrattization and economic opportunity. although africa remains the world's least developed continent, average real per capita income increased steadily over t last decade and a half. however, in spite of these positive trends, instability and conflict persist in parts of africa. this instability has a direct bearing on u.s. national interests and those of our closest ally. terrorists, narcotic traffickers, and a range of transnational criminal organizations exploit state fragility and conflict. conflict destabilizes states and borders, it stifles economic growth, and it robs young africans of the opportunity for education and a better life. while attacks in brussels and paris and even in san bernardino offer tragic reminders that terrorism can happen anywhere, africa has critical vulner abilities and capacity gaps that must be addressed. therefore, we are working with our african partners to increase their abilities to prevent and respond to such threats and to address the conditions that perpetrate the cycles

as the sub-saharan africa there was an agreement saved since it would be such a catastrophe if we really thought over all of our borders, we are not going to fight over our borders. moreover, it is easier for the rest of the world to have an interlock or that it recognizes and that's the presidential powers of the country and a member of the united nations. and so there is an international can disagree that this is the way we will operate. the difficulty with that is that it stays at this level and most of these countries and i would argue that this is not -- if you actually look at sub-saharan africa, you have something of the same pattern, that they are sitting on the top of society that are very loosely linked to that system. so you either the parts of the world, europe, united states, so forth that are much more invested in the state has done figure out a way to force a connection of the states and the populations in the region and elsewhere. or more likely, even in the countries that were the origin of the international state system that will begin. basically it doesn't matter what

>> i vindeed. 75%-- a good 70% of my genetic code comes from sub-saharan africa. that. i was surprised to find 25% of my d.n.a., my ancestry is irish and english. mark wahlberg and i -- >> everybody is surprised by that but i say the cream was pored in the coffee, not the other way around. >> that's right. >> larry: why are you so shocked? it's funny, because the other powerful thing, it was a family story. alex haley was discovering his roots, but it became this story for all of america. do you think america can have a katharthsis for a story like "roots"? >> we did once, and i believe we can again. >> larry: because of the family aspect, do you think? >> because of the family aspect. the first time was really like pulling the scab off of a wound, and everybody was very, very raw. >> larry: very powerful. >> it was very powerful. 40 years on now, i believe we can have that conversation and i'm hoping we can have that conversation absent a lot of the anger, a lot of the fear, and most especially, absent the guilt and the shame and that we can have a katharthsis as

mostly from sub-saharan africa. seeking a better life in europe. they were rescued by the italian patrol boat. it had received a satellite sos call from a migrant aboard the vessel. as the ship approached the boat to hand out life vests, it flipped over. the number of similar ships makingng the perilous voyage frm libya to italy has picked up in recent days and is expected to continue throughout the summer. alone,is week on tuesday 3000 people were rescued in 23 different missions according to the italian coast guard. over 300,000 people that have arrived on italy's shores in the past two years with at least 7000 more drowning before they could get there. were injured in barcelona as protesters clashed with police in a third consecutive night. tensions arose when squatters were forced out of a bank they had been occupying for years. demonstrators came out in support of the squatters and want them allowed back inside the premises which have been used as a community center. we are learning that a police operation is currently underway in central pari

as with sub-saharan africa, there was in essence an agreement saying since it would be such a catastrophe if we really fauought over all of our borders, we're not going to fight over our borders, and moreover, it is easier for the rest of the world to, you know, have an interlocker that it recognizes and that's the presidential palace of a country and a member of the united nations and so there's a kind of international consensus that this is the way we're going to operate. the difficulty with that is it stays at this level of appearances, if you wills, and most of these countries, i world argue this is not unique to the middle east, if you look at sub-saharan africa, you have something of the same sort of patterns that they are sitting on the top of societies that have very loosely linked to that system. so either the parts of the world, europe, the united states, so forth that are much more invested in the state system figure out a way to force that connection of the states and their populations in the region and elsewhere, or more likely even in the countries that were the origin of th

most who arrive come from sub-saharan africa, but syrians have also been registered. recent efforts to block illegal travel have led to a sharp drop in migrants using the eastern route through turkey and greece. the numbers using this much more dangerous crossing are increasing. >> the new route from egypt is open, it's a long route. it's very risky and what we are worried about is that so many phundreds of refugees and migrants are very much at risk of being adrift for days at high sea in the mediterranean. >> as the weather improves going into summer, the numbers of people risking the crossing from north africa are likely to go up. even with fewer migrants and refugees arriving via the balance can route, europe and the people trying to reach its shores face testing times. >> flasho is the spokesperson of the international organization for migration in italy. he joins us now on the line from rome. obviously some syrians arriving in cicily on those boats, where are most of the migrants that have been arriving in cicily from? >> well, actually just one arrived today so

. >> the reason i focus on sub-saharan africa is because girls never get the chance.hey're often married off at a very young age or they just are used to work at home and work in the fields while the boys go to school. >> and that's why "reverse the course" was born. >> so why don't you come help me make a bow? "reverse the course" is a business and foundation that i started at the age of 12. i really wanted to help one girl go to school, and so i thought by selling products i could raise money to pay her tuition. >> but before she could sell any products, she needed to make them, and that included learning >> um, so it took about a month, maybe two months to really teach myself how to sew. and like i can only do a straight line still, it's not like clothes or anything. >> mary grace started small, with just one product. >> this is actually, my first thing i made. it's called a reversible headband. and it just slides in and out like that. >> oh, that's so clever. with time, she added more and more types of accessories, and invested in more sophisticated equipment. >>

interference window of iran's activities with a lack of stability and then up past week with sub-saharan africa in the terrorist networks operating in sub-saharan africa as which is spreading and that is pretty dramatic. what should the united states be doing with a government structure and then to go into democratic countries. and the autocratic systems were working well bomb terms were not working? is there something in our toolbox? with our diplomacy budgets certainly much smaller than our defense budget. do we have enough resources? to have a tradition of countries of the more inclusive government with the type of violence that we have seen. >>. >> guest: need to take a shot? >> today it is less say question of what should we be doing than what we should not have done or should not repeat? we take down the photographic keeps with a pencil -- that could be beneficial to the citizens that he or she is opposed by we need to think about what comes next we should not be so quick to get rid of leaders that we don't agree with 1,000 percent of the time. if you look at what has happened in libya wh

dying for lack of access to aids treatment drugs, and somewhere from 10 to 15,000 people in sub-saharan africa receiving hiv drugs many of them white people from south africa. today there are 10 million people in treatment in developing worlds as a result of efforts that my colleagues worked on but the people ralph talked about and other nongovernment organizations. doctors without borders, all these different organizations in south africa, drug study group in thailand and a wide range of groups that want to involve this thing and it is a big success story. at the root of these disputes just understand as i mentioned the power that is involved for several years. my wife took a drug for women who are about 1/5 breast cancer patients with a certain kind of cancer that is useful. that drug was generating $500 million, $500 million a month for the swiss company developing initially by us subsidiary, and developing the drug at first, pushed by an academic at ucla. it is not even the biggest selling drug nowadays, they generate more cash than that. what political problem, $500 a month, almost entire

marie: many countries in sub saharan africa have called for these vaccines because of this dreadful anddevastating disease which is called epidemic meningitis which was

it's in sub-saharan africa, somalia, nigeria and some say even in central africa republic of the eastern congo it's becoming apparent. now, my question is, when we developed africa it was developed without resources they have to get their resources from other sources. that being the case, what is happening right now i think if we say we had a strategy to contain isil at the strategy did not work. we are not containing isil, so we talk about our troops, what they are doing, training equip programs in syria and iraq, but what about these new areas they are going into now and how are we going to be able to resource them should we have to ask what are your thoughts? >> i will give a * admin the chairman has been working on this very much. you are correct. we have seen and director clapper, i'm not familiar with his testimony, but i'm sure it's right and you know africa well yourself, senator, there's a mixture of two things going on. one is a rebranding of existing extremist groups signing up, so to speak to isil and the other is newly inspired or newly funded nuclear's of groups, both of th

and i expect that to result in a gigantic worldwide in richmond for example, subsequently -- sub-saharan africa i predict a great pitcher it has more genetic variability is banned and the other part of policy paeans so when they stop misgoverning themselves like the europeans who only had the first and second world war in the holocaust and communism and fascism we were so clever by comparison this is all ironic but when they have the quality and dignity and stop having government control their large government indians of robbers because of the genetic variability the greatest mathematicians intellectuals artist will all have black faces which i feet will be a wonderful irony of racism. >> i hope that you are. >> i know that i am. >> you were trained as an economist in the '60s. >> / ledger system -- assessment today compared to when you began? >> or in some ways it is worse economists very surprisingly have become more arrogant which is almost unbelievable considering the '60s thinking that they have the solution, that sociologists and english professors are stupid and they are just the cat's m

he talked about sub saharan africa, how the african economies in many cases still overdependent on china. notably bearish on china. skeptical of their growth, their credit reliance and commodities. against the back drop, the telecom company is more competition. it's overexposed to the economy specifically in south africa. and in nigeria, which he said are part of this macro hurricane story as he called it. those shares traded on the pink sheets here. but of course, on the johannesburg exchange, i believe looked to be showing a dip down. we'll see what happens as the markets open tomorrow as well. >> thanks so much, kate kelly. got to go to the ambassador to trade this one. fundamentally, the back drop in south africa, mining country. >> stock trading about 12 times earnings. $17 billion company u.s. to me, again, it's exposure in nigeria, exposure across that region where we know those are oil economies that are stumbling here. the total consumer story to me is really why you're buying it. companies like this are allowing these guys to leave technology. i don't have a position. obviously

marie: many countrtries in sub saharan africa have called for these vaccines because of this dreadful devastating disease which is called epidemic meningitis which was

telling that the country with the world's first drone delivery network for medicines -- >> sub-saharan africa, rwanda? yes, there is an example of a country leading in the future and doing the right through, bringing on the drones. >> i see the assisted automation and full driverless and modules and pods. who do you think is most likely at this point to be the winner sneer. >> i think over any decent time period, maybe not tomorrow or next month, over any decent time period, completely driverless is going to be the winner. i think there are about 30,000 hayden deaths in the u.s. per year. the majority are caused by drivers falling asleep or other kinds of error. let's get that error out of the system. the driverless cars are not perfect yet. that's not the right test. they are improving really, really happenedly and they're going to be better than us. i say bring those things on. >> it starts with freight and trucking and these sorts of things and then sits consumers? >> that feels right. the easiest, most routine driving is hong haul interstate driving of trucks. i wouldn't be surprised if a

for example, in in sub-saharan africa in particular, i predict a great future, they have more ability than any other homo sapiens. so when they stop miss governing themselves, so like thewhen the europeans only had a first world war and the second world war and the holocaust, communism and fascism, we were so clever by comparison this is all ironic. but when the sub-saharan africans have equality before the law dignity, and when they stop having large control of the large governments in the large bands of robbers, they will grow because of the genetic ability the greatest messed mathematicians, intellectuals, artists, scientists, will all have dark faces which i think will be a wonderful irony on racism of europeans. >> left i hope your right. >> i normally. >> i don't disagree. op we were trained as an economist in the 1960s. >> if you call going to harvard and been trained as an economist.er >> you've done okay for yourself. what is your assessment of the state of the economics profession today compared to when you began? >> i don't think it's improved all that much. in some ways it

on c-span two, hearing on counterterrorism efforts in sub-saharan africa with members of the senate barn committee. that is live on 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> it now a look the lives of military social welfare programs and how they have changed through the decades from rutgers political history professor, jennifer, this is about an hour and a half. >> i think we'll get started. welcome everyone i'm christian, i direct the history and public policy program policy program here at the wilson center. i am delighted to welcome all of you to this session with jennifer metal set also on behalf my cochair from george washington university. since we're on c-span today let me just emphasize that we are at the wilson center, the nation's nation's memorial to 28th president and one of the nation's key now public policy form here at washington dc. you are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the national history center. it's represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. amanda along with pete in the back

i predict a great future, sub-saharan africa has more genetic variability than any other part of homo sapiens. when they start miss governing themselves so unlike we europeans who only had a first world war, second world war, holocaust, communism and fascism and we were so clever by comparison, this is all ironic. when the sub-saharan africans have equality before the law and dignity and when they stop having large struggle, control their large governments, large hands of robbers they will grow and because of the genetic variability. the greatest mathematicians, musicians, intellectuals, artists, scientists will all have black faces which i think will be a wonderful irony, racism and europeans. >> let's step back. i hope you are right. step back for a moment. you were trained as an economist. >> going there would be trained as an economist. >> you have done okay to yourselves. >> what is your assessment of the state of the economics profession today compared to when you began? >> i don't think it has improved all that much and in some ways it is worse. economists surprisingly in the l

most of the migrants are believed to be from sub-saharan africa. >> >> a teenager is recovering afterbitten by a shark off the coast of north florida. the boy was on a surfboard with his father when the shark swam up and bit him on the calf. rescuers say judging by the size of the bite the shark was about five feet long. the beach was closed for about hour. in souther investigators are trying to figure out if a shark bite is to blame for another's injury. lifeguards at newport beach found a woman bleeding heavily with large bite marks on upper torso and shoulder. there had been no reports of sharks in the area. the beach is now closed at least till morning. >>> let's go to the growing controversy over the shooting of a gorilla at the cincinnati zoo. the animal was killed over the weekend after a 4-year-old boy somehow fell in the gorilla enclosure. the zoo's dangerous animal response team shot the 17-year-old ape named harambe because they feared for the boy's life. one witness says that is might have been an overreaction. >> he wasn't harming the child. it seemed the gorilla was scar

all were refugees from sub-saharan africa, some from mali and senegal.rs a day powered by our 2400 journalists, i am mark crumpton. the bank of canada kept its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent, signaling the canadian economy will contract as alberta wildfires cut production. for more on the headwinds facing the country, we are joined by pamela ritchie in toronto. take on the boc's wildfires and growth? pamela: in terms of the hit to second-quarter gdp, the bank of canada is expecting on an annualized basis 1.25% of a decline to show up because of the damage that has been wrought because of the wildfires. in april, the bank of canada was looking at 1% growth for the second quarter. 0.25% shaved about off that outlook. it is something that will pick up later on. the no policy response needed, meaning they won't have to lower rates to stimulate the economy in a response to this. also in these notes, there's waiting for the federal reserve perhaps. talking to a guest later on our show, robert spector, who says it seems to be a placeholder comment f

last not least, we're looking at sub-saharan africa as a frontier market where we hope we can put a little money to work for a long-term return. scarlet: that has to be difficult. york meansn in new even a small percentage of your assets would move the needle in a huge way. primaryave hit on the difficulty for us. what we have done is we have told our partners who are in the market -- we have made some small investments. we are patient. five orit may take us so years to move the needle, but in 30 frontier markets, if you are right about what you are investing in, a little goes a long way. scarlet: let's talk a little bit about returns. h have an annual overturned of 7%. is that reasonable -- i don't want to say a dismal world, but we just described a world in which the prospect for pickup is not immediate and clear. recently lowered it from 7.5% to 7%. it will be a challenge because of slower economic growth year and are looking at some adjusting things that we think will help us. we have a somatic focus where we are putting more money into the markets, where we think we can access that. s

in sub-saharan africa and the biggest country in the democratic republic of congo? rep that is a big issue peoplege are talking about the national academy of science is working on a report due in a couple of weeks but there is a debate we have never had before which is who has the moral authority to eradicate the. >>host: is the united states or companies doing similar work to try a 258 zika zero or malaria or other mosquito boardha diseases? >> there is three or four different technologies involving engineering mosquitos to be of the most radical but there are others because it is testingg another type of genetically modified mosquito you have to release millions because of the suppresses the mosquito population that is tried out in florida there is some opposition tothat although the government put out an opinion. >> you had a recent headline in the technology review. >> that speaks to the diversity that is out there and how they're treated differently if he is a genetically modified people are worried lot more regulation but there is one of the parasitic bacteria

this past week, we had a hearing on sub-saharan africa and the terrorist members operating there. it is spreading. the risk of failed states in africa is pretty dramatic. my point is that, what should the united states be doing? in an effort to try to deal with the governing structure -- we have moved from autocratic countries that have not been able to transition into democratic countries under -- in this for a while -- the autocratic systems were working but long-term they will not work. is there something in our toolbox -- i mean, i look at what we have available to us, our diplomacy budgets and our development assistant budgets that certainly are much smaller than our defense budgets. we have enough resources? are we using them properly? is there a better way to focus on having a more consequential impact on the transition of countries, particularly in that region to a more inclusive government that can prevent the type of violence we have seen? sec. baker: you want me to take a shot at that? first of all, i think, today, it is less a question of what should we be doing perhap

on c-span two, hearing on counterterrorism efforts in sub-saharan africa with members of the senate barncommittee. that is live on 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> it now a look the lives of military social welfare programs and how they have changed through the decades from rutgers political history professor, jennifer, this is about an hour and a half. >> i think we'll get started. welcome everyone i'm christian, i direct the history and public policy program policy program here at the wilson center. i am delighted to welcome all of you to this session with jennifer metal set also on behalf my cochair from george washington university.

there are hundreds of thousands of people, mostly from sub saharan africa waiting to make this dangerous crossing. so when there's a break in the weather, as we saw over the last week, they will come, and they will come as just thousands and thousands of people. thursday alone, 4,000 people were rescued at sea by the italian coast guard and the navy. and we can expect as the temperatures go higher and the seas get calmer, more and more people to make this dangerous journey. >> and, ben, that is the real concern, isn't it? so what are authorities doing to try to stop people setting off on these perilous journeys? >> reporter: unfortunately, very little. there's been talk among european leaders about some sort of military action against the human traffickers. mateo rensi, the italian prime minister, has been urging european leaders to try to do more to somehow deal with this problem, not out on the open seas but where the rouots of th problems are, which isn't even in libya. the problems are in corruption, hopelessness, war, and poverty in africa. and of course that's not been addressed. a

interest in middle east, russia, china, sub-saharan africa and elsewhere in the world. the pew research center notes that over 75% of the world's population today lives in country where severe freedom of religion abuses occur annually. instances of anti-semitism at a seven seven-year high. it's getting worse everywhere, particularly in the middle east but also in yourp and in the united states. mr. speaker, ancient christian communities in iraq and syria are on the verge of extinction, extinction, and other religious minorities in the middle east face a constant assault from the islamic state. several weeks ago, this congress passed a resolution sponsored by jeff forten bery, that was followed by a declaration by secretary of state john kerry that said isis has committed and continues to commit genocide, mass atrocities and war crimes against christians, yazidis and other minority faiths. we know it's happening. we are speaking out. in a couple of weeks i'm chairing a hearing on what's next, what we should be doing next to combat this terrible, terrible crisis. in niger

there will be -- climate changes are expected to exacerbate drought, especially in places like sub-saharan africaparts of india, and the problem is, it doesn't balance out. rising sea levels on the coast don't balance out inland route, but the drought -- inman isught, but the drought expected to contribute to large movements of people. we could see 200 million people displaced by the impacts of climate change by the middle of the century. this of the people in vulnerable communities and subsistence farmers that would experience more and stronger drought in the longer be able to support crops. thataller does point out scientists are working on technology to better irrigate improve agriculture. the impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed and don't necessarily balance out. host: next caller is from tulsa,, oklahoma. go ahead. caller: good morning. what is amazing is we're into this discussion about so-called effects of climate change. and yet, the villain in climate change is not being discussed, which is carbon dioxide. foron dioxide is necessary all plant life on earth, and therefore, a

agreement oft the inrybody, especially sub-saharan africa, the biggest country. permission of?eoplethe big issue that will be talking about. the national academies of science is working on a report in washington on gene drives. they may weigh in. really the debate that we have never had before, which is who has the moral authority to eradicate a species on earth? host: is the u.s. or other companies in the u.s. that are doing the miller work with mosquitoes -- doing similar work with mosquitoes, these other mosquito borne diseases? three or fourre different technologies that are involved in technology, to fight zika and malaria. jean drive is the most radical of them. a company there is testing another genetically modified mosquito, offspring said don't live -- live very long. you have to release millions of , you can the mosquito population. to beompany has applied trying it out in florida. there has been some opposition to that. the government recently put out an opinion that the technology looks safe, so that may go forward as well. host: you had a recent headline in technol

there were somewhere between 10,000-15,000 people in sub-saharan africa receiving hiv drugs. many of them white people from south africa. today, there are more than 10 million people that are on treatment in developing worlds as a result of all of these not just meot just, and my colleagues worked on, the people that ralph talked about, the all nongovernment -- the other nongovernment organizations, doctors without borders, all these organizations, drug study group in thailand, there was a wide range of groups that really were involved in this thing. thiss been a big success, story. at the root of all of these disputes, just to understand, as i mentioned, the power that is involved, for several years, my wife took a drug that is a cancer drug for women who are 1/5 of breast cancer patients have the type of cancer this is useful for. the drug was generating about for thelion a month swiss company that, it was developed initially by a u.s. companyry, and the didn't want to develop the drug at first, but they were pushed by an academic and ucla. they finally did. , that is oneagi

9,000 people at a dying for the lack of access into the summer between ten to 15,000 people in sub-saharan africa that are receiving the drugs. today there's nothing 10 million people as a result of these efforts not just me and my colleagues but the people he talked about a. of doctors without borders and all these different organizations of the drug study group as a whole range of groups that were involved in this and it's been a big success story but at the root of all the disputes, just to understand as i mentioned the power that's involved for several years my wife took a drug that's a cancer drug for women about one fifth of breast cancer patients have this and it is generating about $500 million a month. the swiss company was developed initially by a u.s. subsidiary and the company wanted to develop the drug of and of course and they finally did. but if you can imagine, that's one drug for one company. it's not even the biggest selling drug nowadays. there are more that generate more cash than that. whathe political problem do you think you could imagine you couldn't solve with $500 a mont

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