Guinea worm is set to be the next disease eradicated from the world and the first to be overcome without a vaccine or treatment. Through the effort of The Carter Center and its partners, this disease has been reduced by 99 percent: from an estimated 3.5 million cases in 1986 to fewer than 32,193 reported cases in 2003. Today, we are fighting the last 1 percent of the disease.
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[…] Owen has shown that aid works: on the eradication of disease, the provision of safe drinking water, and building stability and democracy, without which you can forget real development. But it doesn’t need to be government aid. It might be better if plenty of it wasn’t (it’s all our money, anyway). And the carpers, the poverty alleviation free riders? Screw them. (Or better still, read Jim doing it.) […]