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Like many great medical breakthroughs, Drs. Abhay and Rani Bang's discovery of how to reduce child deaths in the developing world as much as 75% came from a deceptively simple premise. "We decided to listen to our patients," says Abhay. That may sound obvious, but in 1986, when the pair returned to their poor, central Indian hometown of Gadchiroli with master's degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins University, it was a novel approach...
Then, explains Abhay, 55, priorities for the developing world were decreed in abstract by the medical establishment. "For example, everyone said population control was the No. 1 priority and family planning the No. 1 solution," he says. That approach ran counter to principles Abhay learned growing up in Mohandas Gandhi's ashram at nearby Sevagram (literally, Service Village), which favored community and consensus over hierarchy and imposition...
...trust they called the Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health. After setting up a lab in an old warehouse, they began surveying two nearby villages. The results were immediate. "If you actually talked to the mothers, you discovered women had other needs than just contraception," says Abhay. "We found 92% had gynecological diseases...
...recovery is spiritual. The very fact that strict disciplinary measures do not act as a deterrent to drug use confirms the view that the remedy lies elsewhere. It is perhaps because of the prevalent misconception of success that frustrated people seek transient solace in dangerous chemicals like methamphetamine. ABHAY CHATURVEDI Mysore, India...
...month, Maharashtra, which guaranteed the deal, defaulted on a $30 million bill, and that bounced the debt to the national treasury. The one certainty is that Enron is going to get paid: the national government pledged as collateral all government resources apart from military and diplomatic assets. "This," says Abhay Mehta, a columnist and author of the book Power Play, a critique of the deal, "is a financial earthquake...