Download the PDF Millions of Africans die needlessly of disease each year. Can Bill Gates change that?
by Michael Specter
Each May, representatives from the hundred and ninety-two member nations of the World Health Organization travel to Geneva to set policies for the coming year. The assembly lasts a week, and the delegates often find themselves devoting as much of that time to politics as they do to matters of life or death. Read more »
Weighing Health Risks
by Michael Specter
KAKULU, Uganda — This village is really just a muddy patch of ground in the tall trees near where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria. The men work on coffee plantations. The women bear children, fetch water from the well about a mile away and cultivate cassava, potatoes and bananas. Read more »
Michael Specter has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.
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