Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases

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Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis. AIDS, which is now usually treated in rich countries, still ravages the world's poor. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling these diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries.

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Winner of the 2004 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Medical Science, Association of American Publishers "This book should interest anyone involved in international public health, politics and economics. It is a valuable effort to find a practical solution to a major problem."--Pierre Chirac, Nature

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Michael Kremer is Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and NonResident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He founded and was the first executive director of WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization that places two hundred volunteer teachers annually in developing countries (1986-1989). He previously served as a teacher in Kenya. Rachel Glennerster is Director of the Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center devoted to evaluating the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs. She has worked on health and development policy at the UK Treasury, the Harvard Institute of International Development, and the International Monetary Fund.