[EQ] The expanding global health agenda

The expanding global health agenda: a welcome development

Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland  USA
Nature Medicine 13, 1169 - 1171 – September 2007 - doi:10.1038/nm1646

Available online at: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v13/n10/full/nm1646.html

 "…If you think research is expensive, try disease…." Mary Lasker

“…..Over the past decade, issues related to the health of people in resource-poor countries have captured the attention of world leaders, governments, philanthropies, policy makers and the general public as never before. This attention has focused on scientific, public health and humanitarian challenges, and involves biomedical research on vaccine and drug development, implementation of public health measures and a growing realization of the deleterious effects of disease on economic development and political stability¹.

“….International bodies such as the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and the G-8 have made the improvement of global health a priority. Attention to global health issues has been unprecedented in both the current US administration and in a bipartisan manner in the US Congress. Organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William J. Clinton Foundation and Médecins Sans Frontières have helped build health programs for patients throughout the world. Dozens of public-private health partnerships have been formed to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other 'tropical diseases' that predominantly affect countries with low and middle incomes. Activists, including prominent entertainment celebrities, have heightened public awareness of global health issues in the media and have helped educate the public about the disparities in health between rich and poor countries….”

- Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. The international declaration of health rights
Health Requires Peaceful and Equitable Development and Collaboration of All Peoples.
http://www.jhsph.edu/school_at_a_glance/health_rights/  (1992).

 

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