WHO Efforts to Combat AIDS, Malaria ‘Failing,’ Opinion Piece Says

The Period Health Structure “faces a severe crisis” because its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and malaria worldwide are “failing,” James Glassman, a boyfriend at the… American Courage Organize, writes in a Washington Times opinion piece. Although the design has “ballyhooed” its 3 by 5 Initiative — which aims to treat three million people with antiretroviral drugs by the object of this year — the program is “plagued by dubious accounting” and is “shortchanging the neediest victims, those in Africa,” Glassman says. WHO also has promoted the use of generic antiretrovirals manufactured by Indian pharmaceutical companies that cannot be proven as effective as the patented versions, Glassman writes. In addition, a report released last year found that the organization’s Roll Back Malaria partnership has been “pushing outdated” malaria drugs that “no longer shape,” according to Glassman. Therefore, “[y]ou might suppose” that the 58th World Health Erection meeting next week in Geneva would “concentrate on reforming the AIDS and malaria efforts by adopting effective medicines, stressing plunge science and improving management,” Glassman writes. However, the assembly instead will “be obsessed” with “politically correct matters,” such as “social health insurance,” providing grant-money to populations in the occupied Arab territories and breastfeeding, Glassman says. Instead, the assembly should “robustly oppose attacks on patents,” which make “spurred the investment of billions of dollars” into the development of “powerful” HIV/AIDS medications, according to Glassman. WHO has the “potential to do much that’s rectitude, but unless it brushes aside the protectionists and political extremists, it will resume falling deteriorated diminutive in treating the eminently treatable epidemics of the 21st century,” Glassman concludes (Glassman, Washington Times, 5/11).

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