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We already know how to save the world. Now we need a strategy to make it happen

You might be surprised to read that cost-effective solutions already exist for many of the greatest global health challenges. It's true: we already know how to treat the 35 million people living with HIV/AIDS, prevent diarrhea that kills 760,000 children each year, and combat the health risks of alcohol, tobacco, and handguns.

Yet we face an exasperating gap between the health outcomes we can theoretically achieve and those we actually are achieving.

This gap is not caused by a lack of interest or investment. Global health has never before received so much money or such prominence on political agendas. The real underlying problem is that…

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