MalariaWorld remains on its shorter summer edition and contains no topic of interest not reported previously. Thankfully my email inbox had a thought-provoking article from ‘A Midwestern Doctor’ entitled ‘Why Medicine Won’t Cure You—and How That’s Finally Changing’. The anonymous writer’s substack is a great source of insight of what is wrong with the western medical system from within.
This article focuses mainly on the mental health drugs, SSRIs, and contains the following quotation – ‘When I was in high school, I observed a few discouraging events which led me to postulate: “no industry, organization or cause tasked with solving a problem will actually solve it because the problem disappearing threatens their economic livelihood or political power.” The article continues with reference to a Goldman-Sachs report from 2018 that asked ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’
The same concern applies to malaria. When I worked for a company that produces emergency water treatment products, our sales manager was very envious of a competitor, Vestergaard Frandsen’s, lucrative business selling insecticide treated mosquito nets for malaria. We recently reported on the harm of profligate malaria net distribution and previously on their ineffectiveness at tackling malaria. And if they actually stopped malaria there would be no future business.
The same logic applies to all measures taken to tackle malaria – the drug manufacturers making vaccines, treatments, and prophylactics, the insecticide mosquito sprayers and all the novel research topics using AI, drones or genetically modified insects. What livelihood would they have if malaria were no longer a threat?
Recently, we have found fewer articles that examine the changes that might make a big difference, in particular examining improved nutrition. To address this deficiency, it is the goal of Understand Malaria to become a major funder of research that will discover how to eliminate malaria. And we will proudly state that our number one goal is to solve the problem and put ourselves (and the manufacturers of poisoned nets) out of the malaria business.
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