Class Year
2008
Document Type
Feature
Publication Date
Fall 2005
Abstract
In the countries hardest hit by the epidemic, the problem is compounded by the reality that many national health care systems, which will bear the burden of improving available treatments, are themselves in crisis. In years past, many developing countries, encouraged by international financial institutions and trusting in privatization, cut their health care budgets. As a result, health care has been chronically under-funded in many of these countries. According to a recent report by the UN Millennium Project, “[p]overty, misplaced priorities, and years of externally imposed restrictions on social spending have left health services for over two billion people dysfunctional, inaccessible, or priced beyond the reach of the poor.” Thus, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the developing world will depend to a great extent on success in overhauling health care systems in the world's poorest countries.
Recommended Citation
Sylvan, J.C. "The Millennium Development Goals and HIV/AIDS." Sustainable Development Law & Policy, Fall 2005, 32, 75.