There is an interesting article in the Economist about how these diseases are being reduced. It started in 1987 when Merck started to give away a drug that was effective against river blindness. One problem was getting it to those who need it.
The World Bank and the World Health Organisation teamed up with charities, and doner governments. In Nigeria the work that was done in the fight against polio helped put in place a better public health system that helped the fight against Ebola. The Economist thinks that for every dollar spent the return is about fifteen dollars in having more people able to work productively. There are multiple diseases and although Malaria and AIDs get the headlines and are often tagged onto HOT projects it looks as if multiple diseases are being fought using OpenStreetMap and the same health workers. So the maps we create are just not used for a single purpose but multiple ones and there is a economic case for mapping. Cheerio John
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