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The business of taking on malaria

By Debora Mackenzie

24 August 2011

IN THE past decade, there has been a revolution in the way the world fights disease and poverty: the rich got involved. We all know how Bill Gates reinvented the fight against scourges from AIDS to hunger. But he isn’t alone. This slim, well-written volume tells the story Ray Chambers, who helped invent the aggressive financial dealing that gave the get-rich-quick 1980s its bad name. He decided that getting rich was not enough – that happiness required bringing others along too.

Or at least that’s what this book says. What is undeniable is that Chambers has spearheaded a largely unheralded campaign to deliver bed nets to regions…

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