The relevant question isn’t “how big is this issue?” The question is, “how cost-effective is it to make progress on this issue?” EA focuses on schistosomiasis and vitamin A deficiency because they are very cheap to fix, and fixing them provides a big improvement in quality of life.
EAs don’t focus on lung cancer, even though lung cancer is responsible for a lot more DALYs than schistosomiasis (or femicide), because lung cancer interventions aren’t as cost-effective as schistosomiasis interventions.
Also this is an aside but I find it telling that this post specifically focuses on the murder of women, even though men are more likely than women to be victims of murder. You say “why the silence?” but in my experience, it is the opposite—female victims get disproportionate attention relative to male victims. See also how breast cancer is the most-researched type of cancer even though it’s not the most harmful.
The relevant question isn’t “how big is this issue?” The question is, “how cost-effective is it to make progress on this issue?” EA focuses on schistosomiasis and vitamin A deficiency because they are very cheap to fix, and fixing them provides a big improvement in quality of life.
EAs don’t focus on lung cancer, even though lung cancer is responsible for a lot more DALYs than schistosomiasis (or femicide), because lung cancer interventions aren’t as cost-effective as schistosomiasis interventions.
Also this is an aside but I find it telling that this post specifically focuses on the murder of women, even though men are more likely than women to be victims of murder. You say “why the silence?” but in my experience, it is the opposite—female victims get disproportionate attention relative to male victims. See also how breast cancer is the most-researched type of cancer even though it’s not the most harmful.