Nowadays, once-fatal medical conditions can be successfully treated with a simple course of medication. However, this is not the case in vast tracts of the world, where doctors and health workers are pleading for medicines. Sick people arriving at hospitals are sent home, often to die for a lack of drugs routinely available to us, like antibiotics or sulphonamides. The average cost of a treatment? £15. And that´s the cost of saving a life.