Strongly upvoted for identifying and working around the issue of “social reality”. While I doubt that this “direct action” approach is cost-effective on average, since there is no leverage and no scale advantage, it is nearly guaranteed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a number of deaths from infectious diseases. They might still die from starvation and violence, but that is a separate issue you can’t hope to solve on your own.
The scale advantage is that you become the world expert on on-the-ground antibiotics distribution in the Sahel region. I can easily imagine that you can onboard locals to do better distribution, build a pipeline for sourcing and shipping in antibiotics, get grants to fund operations at a larger scale, identify even more pressing problems, etc.
Don’t you think you should first talk to the organizations with that experience, instead of trying to learn from your own experience, without even looking at what is already happening?
I’d have gone with doctors without borders, which I linked to, which does far more on the ground work and would know about the ability to help better, but I think we agree here.
Strongly upvoted for identifying and working around the issue of “social reality”. While I doubt that this “direct action” approach is cost-effective on average, since there is no leverage and no scale advantage, it is nearly guaranteed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a number of deaths from infectious diseases. They might still die from starvation and violence, but that is a separate issue you can’t hope to solve on your own.
The scale advantage is that you become the world expert on on-the-ground antibiotics distribution in the Sahel region. I can easily imagine that you can onboard locals to do better distribution, build a pipeline for sourcing and shipping in antibiotics, get grants to fund operations at a larger scale, identify even more pressing problems, etc.
That is definitely a possibility, but not something OP seems to have in mind.
Don’t you think you should first talk to the organizations with that experience, instead of trying to learn from your own experience, without even looking at what is already happening?
My first comment on this post recommended starting by contacting the WHO regional office for the country in question.
I’d have gone with doctors without borders, which I linked to, which does far more on the ground work and would know about the ability to help better, but I think we agree here.