How does he intend to prevent millions of death each year? The Clinton Foundation way! Negotiate prices for the antimalarial combination drug Arteminisin/Artesunate, a new and better drug recommended by WHO. Benwih, Delphine and Comfort under a bed net. In the average they have a Malaria out break every 3-6 month.

The drug is still expensive and prices fluctuate dramatically. Sub-Saharan Africa will need 500 million treatments a year. The Clinton initiative gives Pharmaceuticals incentives to manufacture the drug that is not a blog buster and thus not worth much of their attention. The incentive lies in the numbers. If you read “The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid“, you understand that small profits from huge volume items sold to a needy market still makes big profits.

However, stabilizing and lowering drug prices and distributing them in Africa are two different horses. More like a race horse - price negotiations - vs a mule - distributing drugs in Africa. The later is slow and inefficient.

That’s where non-profits come in. AIDSfreeAFRICA applauds the Clinton Foundations new initiative. We will offer our expertise in Cameroon. The Clinton Foundation already runs a newly installed and widely hailed Mother-to-Child-transmission-prevention program in the Cameroonian Capital Yaounde - however as I wrote in last weeks blog, Cameroon is out of stock with certain Malaria drugs and Malaria kills more people in Cameroon than HIV/AIDS - by far. Clinton is more than welcome in Cameroon.