Global health conditions are in a state of crisis. Not only are poor health conditions in poor countries ravaging lives and restraining development, but the HIV/AIDS pandemic is threatening to undermine progress on all other fronts in developing countries and menacing the sense of health security in industrial countries.

A state of crisis can help galvanize action. But urgency can crowd out systemic approaches needed for sustainability. The question then is how to galvanize global action on health in such a way that it addresses the HIV/AIDS crisis through measures which strengthen public health systems in poor countries and catalyze policies and institutional change which put countries on a trajectory of long-term sustainability. Full Article (pdf)

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