Victoria Hale, an uncommon hero eradicating black fever.
Meet Victoria Hale. In the year 2000 Victoria Hale launched the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs and vaccines for diseases that primarily affect developing countries. Although infectious diseases account for only 10 percent of deaths in developed countries, they cause 60 percent of deaths among the world's poorest people. OneWorld intends to bring drugs to market at costs affordable to poor people and countries. It has set up a manufacturing and marketing collaborative to begin production of its first drug, which will treat visceral leishmaniasis, a fatal tropical disease transmitted by insect bites that currently afflicts 1.5 million. Learn about her story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org.
Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: skollfoundation
Length: 07:12
Rating: 5.00
Views: 7314
Tags: ashoka black disease entrepreneurship fever foundation hale heroes jeff pharmaceutical skoll social uncommon victoria
Video Comments
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rjcasey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You are an idiot. There is no medical evidence of that at all.
pakieire (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Vaccines contain toxic ingredients! Educate yourself before you submit to this dangerous procedure!!! |
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