The Buffett-Gates Collaboration: Views from the Health Mongers
Posted by internationalh on July 2, 2006
In case you have been living under a rock these past few weeks…Some useful links and one of the health mongers weighs in…
That said, I’d like to stake out a position more nuanced than what might be called hyper-pharmo-scientism and its exact opposite, knee-jerk dismissal of these programs as nothing more than more extension of neoliberalism. In the past year, I’ve run across two thoughtful pieces: Anne-Emmanuelle Birn in The Lancet on the Gates Foundation’s health programs and Doug Henwood in the International Journal of Health Services on Jeffrey Sachs’s recent The End of Poverty.
