One of the most painful realities in Africa is that hundreds of thousands of men , women and children die every year under the vicious scourge of curable diseases like malaria , diarrhoea and respiratory tract infections.Treatable diseases which continue to claim many many lives in Africa because the cost of medicines remain out of reach for so many . And while this harsh reality continues to afflict us , and the price of basic life-saving medicines continues to increase , we see heart-breaking headlines coming from the wealthy humanitarian donors such as in this New York Times article…International Donors Get Bayer to Cut Price 0f Implantable Birth Control for the Poor