Jibia was a 10-year-old girl, ranking third out of 58 students in her fourth-grade class in Rwamwanja, Uganda. Aid cuts meant that the local clinic ran out of $2 bed nets to protect from mosquitoes, as well as anti-malaria medicines. Jibia died of malaria last July, her mother told me outside the family home. Medical records confirmed that, and health workers told me that she would have been fine without the aid cuts: Replacing her tattered bed net with a new one could have prevented malaria, and in any case drugs would have helped her to recover promptly.
- How do you know that for sure?
- Why $2, why not $1 dollar bed nets?
- Why are Uganda not making bet nets?
- That's their own fault, they should just make bed nets if it's such a big problem
- What transparency are they showing for their public finances?
- Also, that's a local Uganda doctor, not an American doctor, at the coroner's office, you don't know that, it could be complications from anything else
- The university ranking of that school must be worse than 1,500, so you can't really trust their medical diagnosis
- It should be by law, reported as merely a prognosis if it's from one of their doctors who likely got it all wrong
- Why don't you tell Uganda to go buy their own bed nets if it's such a big problem, that's all on them