BMJ  2007;334:439 (3 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39136.463229.FA

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Spending on HIV

It's only numbers

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Both England and de Lay et al play the numbers game of statistics, economy, and modelling of the future.¹² But I guess that none of the authors is HIV positive or a doctor and so can sit safely behind a desk throwing numbers to the audience.

HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria are among the greatest killers of the poorest people in the world, claiming about 1 million lives each per annum, or 114 people every hour of every day, disabling the future economies and existence of the poorest nations. Yet, has the world conquered even one of the big three? If a glimmer of hope to save the future deaths came from heavy investment in immune damage from any of the big three, then every penny spent is worth while. To change public attitudes will take decades, unlike the immediate and positive effect of Princess Diana holding the hand of a . . . [Full text of this article]

St Helen's and Knowsley NHS Trust, Prescot, Merseyside L35 5DR

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