[Q]First, the U.S. must lead, but it must lead a global partnership of like-minded and intentioned international organizations and nations. The Bush initiative downplays international organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Global AIDS is a global threat. The U.S. cannot beat it alone. The Bush initiative provides the U.S. with the clout to assemble international partners to map out long-term goals for progress, a coordinated game plan for getting there, a global budget and pledges for the necessary funds. If the U.S. took that step, the world would have, for the very first time, a long-term strategy.
Second, a real strategy would mean a much greater commitment to building sustainable health infrastructure in the most acutely affected regions. Many of these countries have only the shells of national health systems. Without basic clinics, equipment, delivery services and the human capacity to manage and operate them, it will be impossible to do the testing, drug administration, counseling and nursing necessary to battle AIDS and other pressing health crises.
The World Health Organization estimates that with a global commitment - the proportional U.S. share of which would be roughly $10 billion per year, or the price of three movie tickets per American - to build sustainable health infrastructure, hundreds of billions of dollars might be saved in global economic production and 8 million lives might be saved per year.
Third, we need to vastly upgrade our commitment to develop an AIDS vaccine. Leading experts say that the prospect for an AIDS vaccine for the developing world in the next 10 years is extremely bleak. Yet the vaccine is our only hope of eliminating AIDS. The U.S. needs to double its budget for applied science. And we must create a comprehensive package of legislation to create market incentives for big pharmaceuticals, seed financing for biotech companies, and we have to reduce the liability associated with vaccines.
Finally, the U.S. and its international partners must put forth an aggressive diplomatic plan of engagement to press leaders of affected countries to act. Leadership - speaking openly and forcefully and mobilizing government and civil society - is still perhaps the most effective means of preventing new infections. Yet, leadership from many African and all the next-wave countries remains woefully inadequate.
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Second, a real strategy would mean a much greater commitment to building sustainable health infrastructure in the most acutely affected regions. Many of these countries have only the shells of national health systems. Without basic clinics, equipment, delivery services and the human capacity to manage and operate them, it will be impossible to do the testing, drug administration, counseling and nursing necessary to battle AIDS and other pressing health crises.
The World Health Organization estimates that with a global commitment - the proportional U.S. share of which would be roughly $10 billion per year, or the price of three movie tickets per American - to build sustainable health infrastructure, hundreds of billions of dollars might be saved in global economic production and 8 million lives might be saved per year.
Third, we need to vastly upgrade our commitment to develop an AIDS vaccine. Leading experts say that the prospect for an AIDS vaccine for the developing world in the next 10 years is extremely bleak. Yet the vaccine is our only hope of eliminating AIDS. The U.S. needs to double its budget for applied science. And we must create a comprehensive package of legislation to create market incentives for big pharmaceuticals, seed financing for biotech companies, and we have to reduce the liability associated with vaccines.
Finally, the U.S. and its international partners must put forth an aggressive diplomatic plan of engagement to press leaders of affected countries to act. Leadership - speaking openly and forcefully and mobilizing government and civil society - is still perhaps the most effective means of preventing new infections. Yet, leadership from many African and all the next-wave countries remains woefully inadequate.
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http://www.cfr.org/pub7226/princeton_n_lyman_greg_behrman/the_global_aids_threat.php
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