JP Garnier: access to medicine in the developing world

Hello, this is JP. Over the next few minutes, I would like to take you on a journey – of despair, hope, discovery, and innovation behind one of the biggest problems in global health: malaria.

Let me start by painting a picture. A picture of a place where prevailing conditions actively work against the aim of restoring health to those in need, a place where despite the lack of staff, of funding and infrastructure ordinary men and women perform nothing short of miracles, day after day after day.

We are standing in Kumasi Hospital in central Ghana. Despite the many dedicated and passionate healthcare professionals it is a bleak place, no more so than at the end of a long corridor, where you will find