Bill Gates talks about malaria & DDT
Posted by Helen Dunnett on February 21, 2009 in Food & health, Global issues
Just watched an interesting video of Bill Gates presenting at a TED conference in America this month. He is talking about two ongoing societal challenges that he is passionate about. The first is malaria; he talks through the facts and the solutions with some interesting statistics, and the second is on education and what makes a great teacher. Worth a watch.
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Helen Dunnett Said,
Further reading on The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (www.aei.org) New Insecticides Are Crucial in Battle Against Malaria, by Roger Bates, February 19, 2009
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.29421/pub_detail.asp
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Bill Gates vs. the Famine Lobby – Ben Johnson | FrontPage Magazine Said,
[...] heart: the eradication of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa? In a recent speech on the topic Gates admitted, “two tools helped to bring the death rate down: One was killing the mosquitoes with DDT.” [...]
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