There is educational, cultural, scientific and social poverty, which is the corollary of material poverty and must be combated with the same determination.
Piracy can be combated without heavy-handed legislation, largely by coming up with better access to digital media online and through trust-building between industry and their customer base.
Moreover, the disease could be combated not only with Cipro, which is expensive, but also with cheaper drugs such as doxycycline, which the U.S. government bought in spades from generic-drug maker Ivax (nyse: IVX - news - people ).