When he was 40, he developed malaria, which now we're dealing with in 1940s Texas. Malaria was not uncommon. He developed malaria, and his wife took him to hospital.
They don't have malaria up in the northeastern border, and they launched their malaria elimination plan. Malaria, unlike say HIV and tuberculosis, is purely a medical disease. It's mosquitoes. It's not a social disease.
And only a fraction of it is about science. Malaria is the same thing.
And only a fraction of it is about science. Malaria is in a lot of ways a disease of poverty because it relates to sanitation, and water, and access, having a living condition.
Story ties back to the central theme. Malaria's, of course, transmitted by mosquitoes.
They were very poor. malaria and reproductive health over the phone.
horror in which he very nearly died of a comat a combination of abscesses and malaria uh reached such a point of delirium in fact that he thought he was dying and he begged to be left alone so that the rest of the Expedition could continue down the river and get back to
manufacturing these nets that had traditionally been manufactured only in Asia, despite the fact that 92% of malarial cases are in Africa. And so when we went uh two years ago, there were about 4,000 employees um up from 1,000 when we first invested. and they were making about three million nets a
The fundamental reason why our health is terrible, despite our investment, is because as I said, we spend $3.3 trillion, and we're spending that all on malaria, not malaria per se. I'm using malaria as a metaphor.
There's probably some medical reasons to it we just don't understand. But malaria is one that we can eradicate. The complexity is sticking with it long enough to eradicate.
So, arid deserts in Australia. The malarial swamps in Melanesia. Actually got to island Vanuatu by 40,000 years ago.
The first Nobel Prize that was ever given for a treatment for mental illness or for anything related to psychiatry was given to an Austrian psychiatrist for malaria therapy. So malaria therapy was injecting the blood of people who had malaria into mental patients. And the reason that that was done was that the doctor-- and this was circa 1920-- had observed that when patients in his asylum
But then he tried malaria. Why malaria? Because antibiotics hadn't been developed yet. There was nothing for tuberculosis, but for malaria there was quinine.
And it's true in many areas where we work. In malaria we've also-- because some operational centers decided to take the risk of exploring different approaches, and then confronting-- having a sort of healthy competition, and constantly critically challenging ourselves, that we've been able to improve our own practice.
Story ties back to the central theme. But malaria-- a million deaths are caused by malaria greatly understate its impact.
you will do about $11 worth of good. For malaria, $1 will do $35 worth of good. Suddenly you get a very different approach to understanding these are not just good things, but some of them are phenomenal things.
And the punchline, as he gets the top off is, so I don't see why it should just be the poor who have the opportunity to get malaria. Guess what? He got quite a lot of money from the potential donors, and they never forgot it, I would suggest to you.
wars all natural disasters, all road accidents and HIV and malaria combined. Just from lead. I run a nonprofit called Pure Earth and we prevent lead poisoning. And a couple
So I did a show called "All That Mullarkey." Those of you from the UK, Ireland, or America might wonder "Mullarkey" sounds-- all that malarkey, all that nonsense. So I did a show called "All That Mullarkey" some years ago.
I feel I'm at every coffee shop in the city, usually grabbing toast or a cappuccino somewhere. There's always these Malarkey questions.
I feel I'm at every coffee shop in the city, usually grabbing toast or a cappuccino somewhere. I love Malarkey, you guys.
So they told us two reasons. She had malaria somehow picked up, and her insides turned upside down from the shaking of this train. She was the first to go.
I ran home. And the doctors came, and they said I had three good things. I had malaria, kidney infection, and pneumonia, all three things. And there was nothing they could do.
Malaria was not uncommon. He developed malaria, and his wife took him to hospital. And he was turned away from hospital, and then he died.
There's not an anti medicine argument. When I have malaria, I want to be treated properly. When you have malaria, you want to be treated properly.
When I have malaria, I want to be treated properly. When you have malaria, you want to be treated properly. This simply says that health care, treating malaria, is different than what causes health.
on malaria, not malaria per se. I'm using malaria as a metaphor. We're spending it all on treating people who are already sick, rather than spending enough of it on the other pillars that generate health.
but tomorrow he's going to have pneumonia, or the day after, he's going to die from sepsis. So treating the malaria alone doesn't do it. Second argument. We choose to be healthy much less than we think.
One is how you can choose to be healthy and the other one is well, if that doesn't work, let's give you a pill, let's give you a drug, let's treat your malaria. That paradigm suggests that we think that we can choose to be healthy, and that ultimately, our choice of health is within our hands.
cure for tropical malaria, for which she won the Nobel Prize in 2015.
Another example is malaria prevention, and this is actually a cause area, or a subcause area, that does particularly well, tends to do better, at least at the moment.
They're actually curing malaria.
And one of the reasons I was in India is India is actually getting close. They don't have malaria up in the northeastern border, and they launched their malaria elimination plan. Malaria, unlike say HIV and tuberculosis, is purely a medical disease.
So what we've often done, and actually we've done this before. There was a malaria elimination effort in the '60s. It did pretty well, but we didn't carry it all the way through.
And only a fraction of it is about science. We have a bigger malaria program and a bigger TB program.
Plus a possible malaria infection, and oncoming cows in India.
of infectious agents. So first he started with strep, and then the tubercular bacilliaie. But then he tried malaria. Why malaria? Because antibiotics hadn't been developed yet.
You've supported us all along. and also because malaria has the same symptoms as Ebola.
You've supported us all along. if it's only malaria.
They'll have malaria, obstructed labor, some other problems that they would have ordinarily had taken on.
And avian malaria is now moving up the mountain.
We can prevent malaria by providing insecticide-treated bed nets.
And the Against Malaria Foundation is one of them.
good than anti-malaria nets.
Meningitis and malaria. Her body couldn't fight off diseases, and she dies a few days after this picture was taken. And this picture changed his life. He took this
on a floating barge on Lake Malaren.
We distributed over 14,000 malaria nets.
parasite-- it's related to malaria.
He went to hospital, he had malaria, did not get treated, then he died. So what killed him was malaria. Had he received treatment for his malaria, he would have lived.
So what killed him was malaria. Had he received treatment for his malaria, he would have lived. Had he receive chloroquine, he would have lived.