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The challenge of Global Health
Today, more money from public and private donations is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before.
The January/February 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs includes an article on the multiple challenges that global health is facing today.
Tackling the developing world’s diseases has become a key feature of many nations’ foreign policies, and billions of dollars are made available for health spending.
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Unfortunately, a lot of money donated to improve global health is leaking away without result due to a largely uncoordinated effort. Because much more than money is required to conquer the diseases of the developing world; it takes states, health care systems and a certain local infrastructure to improve public health. Decades of neglect has resulted in a lack of hospitals, clinics, laboratories, medical schools and local health talent.
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Another problem is that aid is almost always dedicated to a particular high-profile program or disease rather than at public health in general. Efforts should focus less on particular diseases and more on broad measures that affect populations’ general well-being.
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Still more money is needed on a regular basis without restrictions on the uses to which it is put.
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Source: Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007
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