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75% - 100%
50% - 74%
25% -49%
10% - 24%
fewer than 10%
Drug availability
in Sub-Saharan Africa
Weekly death toll
Percentage of people in need
of treatment who are receiving
anti-retroviral drugs 2005
Estimated number of people
who died each week from HIV/AIDS in 2005
Selected examples
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Solving Public Problems?
Resistance is Mobile
The majority of countries with
ongoing malaria transmission
now report mosquitoes
resistant to one or more
classes of insecticide
Colombia
Resistance to two
classes detected
Cote d’Ivoire
Resistance to four
classes detected
Countries with malaria
transmission and
insecticide resistance
Countries with malaria
transmission and no report
of insecticide resistance
India
Resistance to three
classes detected
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PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE CHALLENGES:
How is Solving Public Problems Different from Solving Private Ones?
Public institutions do not have a well developed
culture of asking questions.
There is little institutional readiness to incorporating
good ideas from outside.
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Bureaucracies lack access to good technology or
people who can use it.
The public distrusts the seriousness of the intention.
Leaders often distrust the ability of the public to
crowdsource wisely.