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‘I consider we are on the verge of taking historic steps to reduce illness within the developing world,’ he informed the World Health Assembly in 2005. ‘What will make it possible to do something within the 21st century that we’ve by no means done earlier than? Science and technology.’ The same philosophy was expounded a hundred years in the past by the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Division, based in 1913, which by 1933 was paying the salaries of half the employees of the LNHO.

