Global Fund 3.4 end tuberculosis, aids, malaria
this summary comes mainly from briefings jim kim gave at youth summits and the first change the world mooc during the first 18 months of his appointment to world bank by obama in 2012
any errors are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc region MA Statistics DAMPT Csambridge
around 1987, 3 uniquely energetic graduates passionate about health service in world's poorest communities came together in boston and formed pih.org - the only homegrown/youth=organised network which placed harvard medical students in poorest rural haiti and later nations like peru; two of these students graduated in anthropology and decided that franciscan values of servant leadership were what they wanted to apply; paul farmer had led explorations haiti the year after graduation with his friend wellesley graduate ophelia dahl daughter of oxfords best selling author; jim kim was the other graduate studying anthropology of med at harvard the son of korean immigrants - life story at this world bank tedx;
in boston the friends stayed with a franciscan monk originally from peru; jim kim in particular became energised abut ending tuberculosis there;
by 2003 paul farmer had rightly become famous in books like mountains beyond mountains;
jim kim was helping mobilise intellectually disruptive tactics including close the world bank- he connected the most concerned stakeholders in poverty 3 worldwide health crises tb aids and malara and demanded a global fund which was perhaps the one thing that both clinton global and george busg agreed on by 2005; meanwhile kim discovered to his surprise that the worlds most effective end tb networks were brac's women in bangladesh he shared his knowledge with gates and soros who had asked farmer/kim would they help en tb in dissident russoa prisons if he soros funded that; so by 2005 the global fund was formally celebrated and while all of the above deserve congratulations it was abed-asian womens empowerment networks who had scaled the most effective tb models
you can see abed awarded gates global health prize ang both gates and soros viits tobangladesh villages 2005-6
its certainly true that each side gained from the collaboration - for example clintons and others helped: farmer build 2 world class teaching hospitals in haiti and rwands; jim kim was appointed to lead world bank in 2012; soros in helping launch brac usa 2007 talked of abed being just about the only ngo leader who scaled with the least, and all the digital wizards of banking for the poor including mpesa's nick hughes , bill gates, mit quadir/legatum, and abed to develop the world's most populous cashless bank for the poor www.bkash.com -
but would this have happened without the energy of youth's most determined health workers and movements empowering billion asian women?- over to you to debate
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