When forced to compromise, ask for more. If you're being forced to reduce objectives you believe are rightfully yours, it may be time to stop, reass… - Peter Diamandis

When forced to compromise, ask for more.

Africa has 1.3 percent of the world's health workers caring for 25 percent of the global disease burden.

As Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates pointed out in his recent talk on the subject: "The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health. … [T]here is a perfect correlation, as you improve health, within half a generation, the population growth rate goes down."

A recent RAND Corporation report illustrates these points precisely, finding that preventable medical errors in hospitals result in tens of thousands of deaths per year; preventable medication errors occur at least one and a half million times annually; and, on average, adults receive only 55 percent of recommended care, meaning that 45 percent of the time, our doctors get it wrong.