| Toward a Golden Age
Yong Kim, Jim
Harvard International Review, Summer 2007, v29, #2, pp20-26
This article discusses global health and social justice. "The past decade has seen bold health-related commitments from political leaders, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the 2005 pledge by heads of state and government to press toward universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. Between 2003 and 2005 alone, global spending on HIV/AIDS almost doubled, from US$4.2 to US$8.3 billion. The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health estimated that over eight million deaths per year could be averted with the effective delivery of proven health care services to affected populations. It surprises many to know that seven years into the third millennium and several decades into the so-called "post-antibiotic era," infectious diseases are still a leading cause of adult mortality around the globe. Even though there are more than 400,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis each year, the global public health and medical community has only been able to treat a total of approximately 21,000 over the last decade with WHO-approved treatments." Jim Yong Kim is Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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H6/06-07 posted October 22, 2007
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