A unified effort on AIDS, global health crises
By James Carroll | Monday, February 11, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…AIDS captured the attention of the world, for good reason. It, more than any other single factor, has generated a global political conversion, drawing a first serious commitment by the well-off to help the most desperate. AIDS has been our call to action. But a second, more nuanced call to action is needed now.
AIDS must not be seen as sucking the oxygen out of an enclosed global healthcare crisis, but as a wind blowing fresh air across the frighteningly open plain of what all humans on this planet need to live. Expanding our response to this disease can prompt a needed expansion of our responses to the others. And responding with focus to each disease can help the broader health systems of the world become what they must be….”…BS
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