"Politicians in wealthy countries are more interested in supporting groups that produce measurable results such as the number of lives saved by vaccinations than in less-quantifiable goals such as building health infrastructure."

I don't get that at all. Building 14 clinics, adding 700 hospital beds, training a thousand nurses... all infrastructure, all far more quantifiable than measuring lived saved by vaccinations.

In any case I agree with those who find the whole thing a false dichotomy.