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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but i'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.
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I Think We Will See Better Vaccines

Paul Farmer
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but i'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.
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We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. for adults, we've got hiv and tb are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. we probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.
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With my eyes closed, i ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "long-term or short-term?" she asks. both. "long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. then our bodies will rot. no surprise there. short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." really? "really," she says. "so don't sweat it.
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If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.
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All of a sudden people in the united states start to realize that vaccines make a difference. the controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. so when i see a disease outbreak, i say to myself, "ok, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."
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Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.
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We're creating this alliance, gavi, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. a lot of them are coming along. we've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of africa. that has been a huge success.
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