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...parasite it carries. Eradicated in North America 50 years ago, the disease continues to plague the developing world, killing an estimated 1 million people a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. But there were several promising developments in 2005, including a huge influx of research money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a pilot project to contain the disease in one African country (see "Zambia"). The best news may be the results of a study of the experimental vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline called RTS,S. In a test conducted in Mozambique and funded in part...
...MELINDA: And I've gotten a little bit more in the field than Bill--because he has a day job. To be out in the villages, talking with the women, seeing what really makes an impact on their lives, that really helps me when I come back to the foundation and go through the numbers, go through the grants and say, Can this really make a difference...
...MELINDA: It absolutely does. When we were in Mozambique, seeing the mothers with babies who are dying of malaria, I think for both of us it really gave us a face to what we're trying to do in the whole area of malaria...
...MELINDA: I think that was the biggest surprise to us when we came to this. We thought some of these problems were being worked on. So when you would come and start to research, you'd say, My gosh, it's not being handled. You realize there is a vacuum that does need to be stepped into...
When we closed the magazine on Saturday night, however, our work was only beginning. Following up on the themes set by the issue, TIME is convening an extraordinary three-day Global Health Summit in New York City this week. With major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have invited more than 400 people from all walks of life--policymakers; religious, civic and business leaders; thinkers and doers; scientists; entertainers; journalists; and public-health officials--to help devise practical solutions to the health crisis in the developing world. The conference is organized around 10 "big questions," from...