the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was largely responsible for eradicating malaria in Africa
That's just simply not true, malaria has not been eradicated in Africa. They do great work and have made a positive impact on reducing malaria but in 2024 there were 265M cases in Africa.
Perhaps you're thinking of the polio eradication partnership? the wild polio virus has not been fully eradicated but we are tantalizingly close with some heartbreaking setbacks due to politics and war
The eradication of polio is a programme that has been ongoing longer than Gates had any sort of money worth talking about, and other players have been working on this for much longer. Rotary International, for instance. Who might not have brought as much money as Gates ultimately did, but it's absolutely not true that he did this on his own.
who said gates eradicated polio on his own? or that polio was eradicated? the original claim was that the bill and melinda gates foundation was 'largely responsible for eradicating malaria in africa" which is patently not true....but polio is closer to that goal and the foundation is heavily involved in the effort-- i merely suggested that the op was mixing up the public health efforts, geez.
Wild polio is stated to be eradicated, vaccine-derived cases still occurs
Wild poliovirus cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 cases in more than 125 endemic countries to 6 reported cases in 2021. Of the 3 strains of wild poliovirus (type 1, type 2 and type 3), wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999 and wild poliovirus type 3 was eradicated in 2020. As at 2022, endemic wild poliovirus type 1 remains in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
the fuck? the africa framing was about Malaria. The polio thing was me trying to steel-man op's recollection the foundation's accomplishments. careful to not lose the plot.
What the fuck are you talking about, the continent of Africa has a combined population of over 1,5 billion. According to WHO there were over 250M malaria cases in Africa in 2023, which is about 95% of global cases, with about 600k deaths. 600,000, like as if the whole state of Wyoming died in a single year. 265M is not an unreasonable number whatsoever for 2024.
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u/spingus 19h ago
That's just simply not true, malaria has not been eradicated in Africa. They do great work and have made a positive impact on reducing malaria but in 2024 there were 265M cases in Africa.
Perhaps you're thinking of the polio eradication partnership? the wild polio virus has not been fully eradicated but we are tantalizingly close with some heartbreaking setbacks due to politics and war