15. Malawi achieved a 67% reduction in the number of children acquiring HIV, the biggest success story across all sub-Saharan nations. Since 2006, they’ve saved 260,000 lives. Al Jazeera
16. Child mortality rates came down by 12% in Russia. Article
17. Life expectancy in Africa has increased by 9.4 years since 2000, thanks to improvements in child survival, progress in malaria control, and expanded access to ARVs. Quartz
18. Mobile phones made significant inroads in the fight against rabies, a disease that kills more people annually than all terrorists combined. Ars Technica
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Life expectancy increases and child mortality decreases isn’t a good thing.
Remember that miracle they talked about in the West Wing?
We’re gonna need another soon enough.Report
About half this list is “Yay, good!” and the other half is taking credit for intentions which have significantly varying degrees of probabilty for panning out.
(And democracy is great, unless non democratic governments are doing what we want, then who cares about democracy?)Report