What is the financial justification to save a child from dying of poverty in Africa?

I have heard that much of the justification for giving to charity ,especially for medical charities in Africa,or to countries ravaged by disease in Africa,is finacial.It is said that saving a child is a financial positive...in other words..It costs the planet or country less to save the child than it does to let it die.What is the detail behind this argument or position?|||I don't see a financial justification for the specific problems you state.





People help poor starving people out of compassion and morality.





Financial arguments for charitable giving that make sense to me seem to only apply to the US and other developed countries. For example:





* It is cheaper to give a child a vacination than to pay thousands of dollars to hospitalize the child when they get a major disease.





* It is cheaper to give infants enough food for their brains and intelligence to develop, rather than have them grow up mentally disabled, needing care for the rest of their lives.





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Ken|||In the short term, healthy children are less of a strain on their parents, both financially and in terms of time. Later on, these same children grow up to be productive adults. The cycle of disease and poverty in Africa will be difficult to break if today's kids can't be protected.





Also, some life-saving treatments are so inexpensive (for instance, a cure for malaria costs about $2 per patient), they are actually cheaper than the minimal costs of "comfort care" and burial.





Of course, there are major hurdles in the way of the efficient distribution of medical supplies in places like Africa. Perhaps that's why aid organizations use the financial benefits of saving a life as a selling point.