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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.