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.
Click here for the original piece: Healthmongers
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Posted by internationalh on July 2, 2006
Sepia Mutiny’s Neha is yelping with joy over some good news.
Armed with a budget of about $200 million U.S., availiability of free ARV drugs is going to expand from 52 clinics supplying 35, 000 people to a whole 100 clinics
Click here to read more: Sepia Mutiny
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Posted by internationalh on June 24, 2006
Robert Weissman pens an interesting account of the failures and triumps of our fight against the meddling virus.
There has been amazing progress in addressing global AIDS over the past five years. Activist pressure and generic competition has driven the price of AIDS drugs down by more than 98 percent, making it possible for donors to invest money in treatment to keep people alive. An HIV-positive diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence.
Check it out here: The Huffington Post
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Posted by internationalh on June 24, 2006
Not surprisingly, UN Donor Freezes on Palestinian AID has had a devastating impact.
Where is the logic in making available essential supplies while at the same time strangling the system that delivers them?" The Palestinian Authority has long relied on foreign donors to run its health sector and other public services. Such aid previously covered around half of the Palestinian health budget.
A post from the Iraq Solidarity Campaign
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