The chart below gives very crude estimates or guesses of the number of people killed/saved or affected (by loss/gain of family, home, or health) by each item over one decade.

Topic	Deaths	Affected	Life-years
Meningitis Vaccine	300 thousand	5 million	12 million
TB Test	500 thousand	5 million	10 million
Patent Pool	100 thousand	500 thousand	3 million
Food Aid Deficit	500 thousand	10 million	20 million
HIV Treatment Retreat	1 million	2 million	30 million
Indian Generic Drug Dispute With EU	200 thousand	500 thousand	6 million
Intellectual Property vs. Drug Access	100 thousand	300 thousand	3 million
Artesunate	1 million	3 million	30 million
Measles Rebound	1.6 million	10 million	64 million
Kala Azar Drugs	1 million	2 million	30 million
Total	6 million	40 million	200 million

Human News aims to devote 1 character to each 40,000 life-years, or 1000 average lives. Thus, the number of characters on these subjects could be 200 million life-years / 40,000 life-years/character = 5,000 characters. This article has 3800 characters plus about 1000 characters for the two photos.