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were authorized by the global fund to zanzibar and 70% of all of the orders are for adult treatment, 70% for adult treatment. malaria is criminally a childhood disease. so there are significant problems that we are noticing out there. the subsidies are to massively reduced the price of the drugs looking in 37 pharmacies in nigeria and ghana and my research team found the drugs were two to five times higher than it had been expected if they are lowering the price which is good they are driving up some of the therapies that impact is still worrying. perhaps worrying is that all countries kenya, nigeria, tanzania account now for 80% of the annual global act production capacity of all of those orders are fulfilled. that is a major problem. the united states government so far has been boycotted the a mfn and i think for good reason, and what you might wonder why i am mentioning this is the u.s. government isn't funding it i think that the u.s. government procurement programs of malaria treatment are going to be seriously detailed buy already know that there are serious problems in procuri
were authorized by the global fund to zanzibar and 70% of all of the orders are for adult treatment, 70% for adult treatment. malaria is criminally a childhood disease. so there are significant problems that we are noticing out there. the subsidies are to massively reduced the price of the drugs looking in 37 pharmacies in nigeria and ghana and my research team found the drugs were two to five times higher than it had been expected if they are lowering the price which is good they are driving...
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in zanzibar, a young executive from the gap spent one year helping the ministry of health and zanzibar doing supply chain management in eds and was able to put his expertise into use in remarkable ways. coca-cola is doing things and a grand scale and young under bourse, business executives, doing it on a micro scale and the combination is truly uplifting. at the end of the day, it will be leadership. that will make all the difference. >> i really appreciate the fine work that all of you do. i agree it is the will of the individual country and the community. three or four years ago, i went to rwanda where they were starting a big initiative. they started in the churches and community centers and i had someone discussing it every week that this event was going to start. i happened to be there when we were out in the village where they were starting and everyone had to take their furniture out of the house and put curtains oup. i put on a suit and a new local guy was supposed to do the job and i thought i came and bombed him out. i put on my suit and we did the spraying around the house.
in zanzibar, a young executive from the gap spent one year helping the ministry of health and zanzibar doing supply chain management in eds and was able to put his expertise into use in remarkable ways. coca-cola is doing things and a grand scale and young under bourse, business executives, doing it on a micro scale and the combination is truly uplifting. at the end of the day, it will be leadership. that will make all the difference. >> i really appreciate the fine work that all of you...
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." ♪ ♪ meet cathy, who's lived most verywhere, from zanzibar to barclay square. patty's only seen the sight, a girl can see from brooklyn heights, what a crazy pair! ♪ cathy: oh my, patty. did you find all your files? patty: finally! who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire! cathy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start in on that social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online. patty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪
." ♪ ♪ meet cathy, who's lived most verywhere, from zanzibar to barclay square. patty's only seen the sight, a girl can see from brooklyn heights, what a crazy pair! ♪ cathy: oh my, patty. did you find all your files? patty: finally! who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire! cathy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start in on that social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what...
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adel island of zanzibar is probably known a part of tanzania.y have almost eliminated malaria from the shore. to help them cross the finish line of charlie braking malaria's death grip, the tool called meads was created. working with the zanzibar malaria control program it was developed to detect the early stages of an epidemic within two weeks of onset. every single monday health leaders from 53 different stations in zanzibar use text messaging technology to send an treen automated server any positive test they have of malaria. if in fact there is a positive test or a blip if you will, they count on the epidemic with all the interventions that we know about and work to erasing it to wipe it out. it's a partnership between public health leaders and so, why your list. it's a remarkable example of taking an existing technology, bringing to get public-sector, bringing together the private sector and putting it to work. that is great leadership. leadership in the fight is also coming from the communities of faith. nowhere in the world are faced netw
adel island of zanzibar is probably known a part of tanzania.y have almost eliminated malaria from the shore. to help them cross the finish line of charlie braking malaria's death grip, the tool called meads was created. working with the zanzibar malaria control program it was developed to detect the early stages of an epidemic within two weeks of onset. every single monday health leaders from 53 different stations in zanzibar use text messaging technology to send an treen automated server any...
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president's malaria initiative, working in tanzania, with the public health leaders in tanzania and in zanzibar in particular. it was launched just a couple of years ago but it is shown remarkable progress. one thing that you can count zimmer is that we will take his best practices and spread them wherever we can. one of the reasons it was pioneered in sands of our because we had seen such progress down to the point of below 1% infection rate for the question as, what does success look like? when do we cross the goal line? this is an effort to do just that. it can take a remarkable gains, lock them in, and take those final steps to stamp out whatever minor outbreaks that we see, god willing. with respect to the faith-based story, nigeria in particular, it is really remarkable as you pointed to. it is remarkable for two reasons. its advantages are twofold. in terms of being able to deliver product, i was always amazed as an ambassador when organizations in the west would come to me and talked about reaching out to parts of the country, having no concept whatsoever about the logistical challenges
president's malaria initiative, working in tanzania, with the public health leaders in tanzania and in zanzibar in particular. it was launched just a couple of years ago but it is shown remarkable progress. one thing that you can count zimmer is that we will take his best practices and spread them wherever we can. one of the reasons it was pioneered in sands of our because we had seen such progress down to the point of below 1% infection rate for the question as, what does success look like?...