MacArthur fellow Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, agrees. “It doesn’t surprise me that as someone who has made his fortune on developing a novel technology, Bill Gates would look for ‘magic bullets’ in vaccines and medicines. But if we don’t have a solid delivery system, this work will be thwarted. That’s something that’s going to be hard for the big foundations . . . they treat tuberculosis. They don’t treat poverty.”
