However, WHO violates its own policy standard regularly. Most African countries reluctantly
cling to chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or the insignificantly better combination of …

Background In Africa, an estimated 300-500 million cases of malaria occur each year resulting
in approximately 1 million deaths. More than 90% of these are in children under 5 years …

The international aid effort against AIDS is greatly incommensurate with the severity of the
epidemic. Drawing on the data that international aid donors self-reported to the Organization …

ContextAdherence to antiretroviral therapy is a powerful predictor of survival for individuals
living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS. Concerns about incomplete …

Haiti is by all conventional criteria the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of
the poorest in the world: 13 per capita gross national product (GNP) is around US $400; …

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Public attention and debate recently have focused on access to treatment of acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in poor, severely affected countries, such as those in Africa. …

This paper studies the relationship between patents and access to essential medicines. It
finds that in sixty-five low- and middle-income countries, where four billion people live, …

… Amir Attaran received travel grants from pharmaceutical company Novartis, and Amir Attaran
… Amir Attaran also received consulting and/or travel fees from the WHO and World Bank, and …

… Amir Attaran, Canada research chair in law, population health, and global development
policy1, … Amir Attaran and colleagues propose a global treaty to overcome the problems …