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Both of them live at the confluence of public health and enterprise, and both of them, because they're manufacturers, create jobs directly, and create incomes indirectly, because they're in the malaria sector, and Africa loses about 13 billion
dollars
a year because of malaria.
And so, Anuj and Acumen have been talking about testing the private sector, because the assumption that the aid establishment has made is that, look, in a country like Tanzania, 80 percent of the population makes less than two
dollars
a day.
It costs, at manufacturing point, six
dollars
to produce these, and it costs the establishment another six
dollars
to distribute it, so the market price in a free market would be about 12
dollars
per net.
We can continue going along at 12
dollars
a net, and the customer pays zero, or we could at least experiment with some of it, to charge one dollar a net, costing the public sector another six
dollars
a net, give the people the dignity of choice, and have a distribution system that might, over time, start sustaining itself.
If you don't like the hotel, there's a castle down the road that you can rent for 5,000
dollars
a night.
Now, we may laugh, but Chris here is actually making up to 5,000
dollars
a month running errands around his life.
This year, two billion
dollars
worth of loans will go through peer-to-peer lending platforms.
Red person is given a hundred
dollars
and can offer a split to blue.
Took home three million
dollars.
Tamiflu is a drug which governments around the world have spent billions and billions of
dollars
on stockpiling, and we've stockpiled Tamiflu in panic, in the belief that it will reduce the rate of complications of influenza.
Their March electricity bill was only 48
dollars.
San Francisco is also spending 40 million
dollars
to rethink and redesign its water and sewage treatment, as water outfall pipes like this one can be flooded with seawater, causing backups at the plant, harming the bacteria that are needed to treat the waste.
Okay? (Laughter) And it seems like a trivial result, but this is the sort of research that used to take the health system years and hundreds of thousands of
dollars
to accomplish.
Between 1960 and 2003, our continent received 600 billion
dollars
of aid, and we are still told that there is a lot of poverty in Africa.
And for one year in the U.S. alone, it's estimated that it's going to cost 22 billion U.S. dollars, if we remove bats.
And we persisted, and we got 450 guys growing mustaches, and together we raised 54,000 dollars, and we donated every cent of that to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, and that represented at the time the single biggest donation they'd ever received.
Let me tell you that there's not too many people interested in investing in that, not even the Prostate Cancer Foundation, who we'd raised about 1.2 million
dollars
for at that stage.
So we'd racked up at this stage about 600,000
dollars
worth of debt.
Last year we had 450,000 Mo Bros spread across the world and together we raised 77 million
dollars.
So now we're funding them to the tune of about five or six million
dollars
to collaborate and bringing them together, and that's a unique thing in the cancer world, and we know, through that collaboration, it will accelerate outcomes.
If mind-wandering were a slot machine, it would be like having the chance to lose 50 dollars, 20
dollars
or one dollar.
A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of
dollars
accumulating.
And the context I'm talking about is where you need to have a product that is less than 200
dollars.
We Western donor countries have given the African continent two trillion American
dollars
in the last 50 years.
And I helped these five fishermen to work together and get this beautiful tuna not to the cannery in Albany for 60 cents a kilo, but we found a way to take the fish for sushi to Japan for 15
dollars
a kilo, and the farmers came to talk to me, said, "Hey, you helped them.
He'd spent 10,000
dollars
to buy a website that exclusively featured women having sex on top of or inside of luxury sports cars.
Three to five
dollars.
Well, it can be as much as 1,000
dollars.
There were countries that did not recognize pharmaceutical product patents, such as India, and Indian pharmaceutical companies started to produce so-called generic versions, low-cost copies of antiretroviral medicines, and make them available in the developing world, and within a year the price had come down from 10,000
dollars
per patient per year to 350
dollars
per patient per year, and today that same triple pill cocktail is available for 60
dollars
per patient per year, and of course that started to have an enormous effect on the number of people who could afford access to those medicines.
I met these founders just weeks after they had launched, and now, in two years, what would you do for five
dollars?
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