Today's blog is written in reponse to an article I read in an email titled "A unified effort on AIDS, Global Health Crises". Supposedly Bush just introduced a Bill urging Congress to approve an additional budget of $30 billion over the next 5 year targeting AIDS. Although I think this is awesome, especially coming from our current President, shouldn't there be diversity in how this type of funding is allocated? We have $30 billion here going specifically to AIDS in developing nations. What about other diseases that are constantly foreshadowed by AIDS and cancer like infectious diseases (ex: worms, malaria, dengue fever, etc.)? Some of these diseases are caused by poor health infrastructures within these nations. There are millions of people who do not have access to clean water, which is a major concern. Not only that, there are millions upon millions who do not have access to simple healthcare to address the rising problem with chronic diseases that are affecting the developing world. Chronic disease rates like heart disease, diabetes, and cancers used to be considered a problem seen mostly in developed nations but studies now show rates of these diseases increasing in populations in Africa and Asia.
My only problem with disease-specific programs like this budget targeting only AIDS is that a big concern is directed towards AIDS, which does affect millions of people, but is nowhere near being the top cause of mortality in the world. There are many other "killers" that need to also be addressed. I guess any money going into global health is better than none.
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