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Impossible. cases of malnutrition and malaria, a disease brought by outsiders, have skyrocketed. so now, brazils government is deploying police and soldiers to evict the miners. it is no easy task. there are tens of thousands of them, and many are running away. but these men have just been caught. their weapons seized. and the aircraft destroyed. translation: what is happening to the yanomami people is happening in several indigenous territories. we happening in several indigenous territories. ~...

CMO Ashwin Moorthy talks about the newly launched Goodknight Mini and HIT No-Gas Spray that are customised low-cost alternatives for the brand’s flagship products.

The Philippines aims to be declared malaria-free by 2030.

The first step is to rethink our local and national spending priorities

Only one of the 81 provinces nationwide has yet to be declared free of malaria.

So i do think theres some projects that philanthropy is good at doing better than governments. well, let me channel some of your critics. they would say in that very impressive answer from bill gates, hes given a huge amount of money to polio. hes given a huge amount of money to malaria. but why should bill gates decide where that money goes? who made you god? im not god. i mean, as a percentage of the world economy, you know, im kind of rounding there, but, yes, i decided that the death of chil...

0h, about 30 billion. about 30 billion a year. about 30 billion. money buys you power. its given you extraordinary power. a lot of people would say that the nature of the power its given you, which you now use philanthropically, is undemocratic, because nobody voted for you. what do you say to that charge? i think spending money on malaria, reducing malaria deaths is a good thing. so when we did ourfirst big grant, we became the biggest malaria funders, or diarrhoea, or pneumonia or sickle cell ...

Or did you, overtime, get exposed to thoughts and ideas that made you think, you know, "this is a good thing to do with my life." i knew that the wealth of microsoft was far more than i or my family would need. when melinda and i found out about how little was going into saving childrens lives, which was kind of shocking to us, then we realised we should get going right away, and we started funding vaccines and work on malaria. and then later, i decided i would shift, er, my time also, and so in...

So theyre not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. so were by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs... ..a vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life thats purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyj...

In a highly impactful way, like eradicating polio, eventually eradicating malaria, saving childrens lives, figuring out malnutrition to get rid of most of that, you know, then i will feel like, "ok, i had a responsibility to spend this money well". but that sounds to me like what youre saying, you partly give so much money away because you do want to not feel guilty because if you didnt give it away, you would feel guilty. 0h, certainly if i spent it on myself, i should feel guilty — and i wou...