Online materials in epidemiology

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Do no harm in Global Health

Laurie Garrett, one of the global health systems leaders, wrote in
Foreign Affairs in Jan/Feb issue about how HIV/AIDS related funds are
changing the development agendas.
It was quite provocative article that the person can agree with her
about other public health priorities, like children pneumonia, but at
the same time a study in Zimbabwe showed there is three times risk for
HV-ve children to die for HIV+ve mothers in compare to their peers who
have HIV+ve mothers.
Maybe holistic view to the problem would be the best?

Summary of Garrett article
Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving,
today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick
than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public
health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems -- and
unless the brain drain from the developing world can be stopped --
poor countries could be pushed even further into trouble, in yet
another tale of well-intended foreign meddling gone awry.
The full article is under
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86103/laurie-garrett/the-challenge-of-global-health.html

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