Which way now? Five difficult choices for philanthropy
Global health
1 March 2009
Alliance magazine
Global health: is the concentration of funding on HIV/AIDS skewing health systems in developing countries?
For nearly 20 years, HIV/AIDS has been the centre of the global health universe. Billions of dollars of aid, public and private, have flowed from North to South to address the pandemic – while the number of infected continues to rise faster than the number receiving treatment. The annual global AIDS conferences remind us that more needs to be done to bring HIV under control. Any attention not devoted to HIV is usually captured by TB and malaria, collectively known as the ‘“Big Three’.
