BMJ  2004;328:10 (3 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7430.10

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WHO report says AIDS offers healthcare opportunity

Fiona Fleck

Geneva

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Dr Lee Jong-wook, director general of the World Health Organization, has said that the organisation's goal of getting lifesaving antiretroviral drugs to three million patients with HIV or AIDS in the developing world by 2005 presents a golden opportunity to put in place desperately needed basic healthcare systems.

In the preface to WHO's annual report on global health Dr Lee said that funds for tackling the AIDS crisis could in turn establish lasting health systems for the future treatment and prevention of disease in the developing world.

"A message that runs through these pages is that progress in health, including rapid and sustainable expansion of emergency treatments, depends on viable national and local health systems," Dr Lee said in the report, which was released on 18 December.

"Scaling up anti-retroviral therapy in resource-poor settings has to be done in such a way as to strengthen health systems based on primary . . . [Full text of this article]

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