tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Exceptional epidemics: AIDS still deserves a global response"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Exceptional epidemics: AIDS still deserves a global response | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Commentary Exceptional epidemics AIDS still deserves a global response Alan Whiteside - 1 and Julia Smith-2 Open Access Address Health Economics Research Division HEARD University of KwaZulu-Natal Westville Campus Private Bag X54001 Durban 4001 South Africa and 2HEARD University of KwaZulu-Natal Westville Campus Private Bag X54001 Durban 4001 South Africa Email Alan Whiteside - Julia Smith - Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 14 November 2009 Received 10 September 2009 J J. .IA ll 1z i OZA- r ir Accepted 14 November 2009 Globalization and Health 2009 5 15 doi l 744-8603-5-15 This article is available from http content 5 1 15 2009 Whiteside and Smith licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract There has been a renewed debate over whether AIDS deserves an exceptional response. We argue that as AIDS is having differentiated impacts depending on the scale of the epidemic and population groups impacted and so responses must be tailored accordingly. AIDS is exceptional but not everywhere. Exceptionalism developed as a Western reaction to a once poorly understood epidemic but remains relevant in the current multi-dimensional global response. The attack on AIDS exceptionalism has arisen because of the amount of funding targeted to the disease and the belief that AIDS activists prioritize it above other health issues. The strongest detractors of exceptionalism claim that the AIDS response has undermined health systems in developing countries. We agree that in countries with low prevalence AIDS