BMJ 2002;324:181-182 ( 26 January )

Editorials

AIDS and global justice

Resources from the global AIDS fund must reach the poorest

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"The bottom line is, the people who are dying from AIDS don't matter in this world."1

Remember HIV/AIDS? This theme issue of the BMJ challenges the global community to overcome its amnesia and fatigue, mobilise its ample collective resources, and make 2002 the turning point in tackling HIV.

The theme that dominates these pages is the need for justice. In his Theory of Justice, John Rawls, perhaps the most important moral philosopher of the 20th century, argued that justice is required when there is a struggle for scarce resources and when life is brief.2 Both of these conditions are met in those countries devastated by HIV. Authors in this week's BMJ demand actions that are based on justice: the distribution of antiretroviral drugs to the world's poorest people; the empowerment of women; the urgent search for an HIV vaccine; and the care and education of children orphaned by AIDS.

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