Bill Gates: 15 years of medical investment is still the biggest return

 Release date: 2015-07-13 source: 36 krypton Author: Simon
[global medical resources] early in the gatesnote on the, a discussion of the capital increase medical articles, referred to the investment decision-making and goal setting, although charitable investment and venture capital is set, but I think, it is worth the weekend to read it.
Life needs us to make choices. No matter in the field or in other areas, many outstanding projects are worth our attention. But if you try to invest all the projects, you will find that the harvest is actually greatly reduced. This is why Melinda and I choose to focus on a few areas. Even in the key areas, we will also set priorities for them to invest more time and money.
Over the next few months, the world leaders will make similar choices. In September, they will set up a series of sustainable development goals in New York, which will help determine the global development agenda for the next 15 years. Proposed targets include health, climate change and the sea. Once the target is adopted, the leaders will give priority to these directions, make specific funds and energy distribution.
Our foundation strongly believes that the medical goal is the primary goal.
Why? Because when it comes to the rescue and improvement of life, the investment in health care has the most amazing return I've seen.
To see what the world has achieved. From 1990, we will be 5 years before the death of the number of people to reduce by half (from about 10% to 5%). And I am optimistic that by 2030, we can cut the data and then cut in half, this will make the 61000000 children from death:
The potential impact of the Summers Lawrence and the Gates Foundation led by former finance minister of the United states. The report, published in the lancet, said that if we focus on several areas of investment, we will greatly reduce the mortality gap between rich and poor countries. This is what I want to see - global health care equality.
Save the children is only one aspect of the benefits of health care. As I wrote in the early summer of this year, by improving maternal health, as of 2030, we will save 3000000 mothers; we will save 10000000 lives by the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis; we will also save 21000000 lives by means of HIV / AIDS.
What can we do to achieve these goals?
On the one hand we need to aim at the target. In this regard, the United Nations in 2000 on the millennium development goals to do well, set up a series of ambitious digital targets. We can clearly see which countries are lagging behind, and which countries are speeding, which can help us to find a more urgent need to change the region. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, we need to accomplish this year's goal in the same way.
Another key step is to consider the dynamic changes of foreign aid. In rich countries, middle-income countries and poor countries, they should bear the responsibility to save lives, but this responsibility should be very different from the next ten years. The growth of developing countries means that they will reduce their dependence on foreign aid, and more to address the cost of medical care for their own people.
The lancet magazine calculated the cost of the target I mentioned above. It was found that by 2030, severe poverty and moderate poor countries would need to invest 3% of GDP in medical terms, and now this is just less than 2%. Of course, such a massive upgrade will not happen overnight. Although it is a huge challenge, it is a great challenge for national leaders, but I think it is possible.
The report also found that in the short term, the 34 most affluent countries, will be vigorously put into research and development of new vaccines and other life-saving tools. Ideally, they will redouble their medical assistance. But in reality, the budget is tight, it is very difficult. However, improving the total number of medical aid and the increase of the high intensity of medical project share can get a very significant effect.
In order to support medical assistance, we need to lobby the leaders of all countries: this not only save lives, but also lead people to go on the road of self-sufficiency. Because as more and more countries join the global middle class (in part by a more healthy, more efficient worker), they rarely need outside help. In fact, the lancet reported that, with the development of time, developing countries will have the ability to pay medical expenses increased by 75%.
One of the challenges of this transformation is that some countries will soon become very rich and can not be included in the rescue target. But there are still a lot of people in these countries are very poor, there is no enough money to fill the gap. Such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Vietnam are facing this problem. So we should pay more attention to the poor, no matter where they live.
A lot of investment in the medical field, the proceeds will be far greater than the cost. According to the lancet reported that the severe poverty of national income will reach 9 times the total investment, moderate poor countries is 20 times.
Global health is a wonderful investment, which should be the top priority of the global agenda. Understanding how to implement sustainable development goals requires that we need to make a lot of tough decisions, but the decision of global health care should not be difficult.