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Divert AIDS Funds to Basic Health Issues, Some Experts Suggest
January 20, 2008 at 2:47 PM
AIDS/HIV News
The AIDS threat seems less forbidding than what it was feared to be two decades ago. Some estimates suggest that it perhaps peaked in the late 1990s. Why not then shift some of the billions of dollars of AIDS money to basic health problems like clean water, family planning or diarrhea.
The world invests about $8 billion US to $10 billion US into AIDS every year, more than 100 times what it spends on clean water projects in developing countries.
Yet more than two billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation, and about one billion lack clean water.
If we look at the data objectively, we are spending too much on AIDS," said Dr. Malcolm Potts, an AIDS expert at the University of California in Berkeley, who once worked with sex workers in Ghana. Problems like malnutrition, pneumonia and malaria kill more children in Africa than AIDS, he said.
"We are programmed to react quickly to small children with AIDS in distress," Potts said. "Unfortunately, we don't have that same reaction when looking at statistics that tell us what we should be spending on."
In a recent series in The Lancet, experts wrote that more than one-third of child deaths and 11 per cent of the total disease burden worldwide are due to mothers and children not getting enough to eat or not getting enough nutritional food.
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