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It is difficult to overstate how much the fight against infectious disease has improved the human condition in the last century.
Toby Ord point out that improved immunization saves more lives per year than would be saved by global peace.
Cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries killed more than twice as many people in 2001 as did AIDS, malaria, and TB combined.
United Nations Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty in half has been achieved five years ahead of time.
This decade has also witnessed a 60 percent increase in global development aid. Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge challenge has graduated from concept to campaign, with at least $125 billion promised to good causes.
Millennium Development Goal for providing clean drinking water five years early, the provision of sanitation has fallen behind: An astonishing one-third of the world’s population, 2.5 billion people, lack access to basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still defecate in the open.
