The life expectancy of those ‘saved lives’ is fairly low though (the quality of life often too) .
edit: to make a practical example, if you are saving 1 life by giving out a lot of mosquito nets, the life you saved is still usually a malnourished child who’s dying of hunger (and is going to die of something else if malaria doesn’t get him first). It’s not as easy to save a life as you would think. Or rather, it is easy to “save a life” in the very specific abstract sense. One glucose injection “saves a life” of starving child—for a day.
The life expectancy of those ‘saved lives’ is fairly low though (the quality of life often too) .
edit: to make a practical example, if you are saving 1 life by giving out a lot of mosquito nets, the life you saved is still usually a malnourished child who’s dying of hunger (and is going to die of something else if malaria doesn’t get him first). It’s not as easy to save a life as you would think. Or rather, it is easy to “save a life” in the very specific abstract sense. One glucose injection “saves a life” of starving child—for a day.