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A Woman's Fight to Save the Poor From Black Fever
Dec 21, 2006
by Uwe Buse
Black fever kills about 60,000 people a year, most of them poor. There is a cure, but the global pharmaceutical industry wasn't interested in producing the drug, at least not until an American woman began her crusade.
It is 10 a.m. as Victoria Hale walks into her office in a glass-fronted high-rise in San Francisco's financial district, the city's conservative heart. She takes a seat and nods curtly, almost in military fashion, to her press agent. The press agent once worked for Bill Clinton when he was still president of the United States. Hale sits down in front of a glass of water, places her hands on the table, palms down, and says: "Yes?" She seems a bit stressed.
Hale returned from London a few days ago. She travels to Seattle tomorrow, to the East Coast at the end of the week and then on to India. With so much travel through so many different time zones, it isn't surprising that Hale might be just a bit disoriented and not exactly sure what she is doing here in this office.
Copyright 2006 Der Spiegel
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 27 December 2006
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