Investment in global health has a big payoff
If you live in the United States, you’ve been blessed with one physician for about every 400 people, on average; if you are Canadian, that number is more like 470. At the other end of the spectrum, the numbers are quite different — in Cambodia, there is one doctor for every 6,300 people, in Malawi, 50,000. These glaring inequalities are apparent throughout the developing world. Today, on World AIDS Day, in addition to the lack of medicines and funds needed to adequately address what is quickly becoming an insurmountable epidemic, there is an increasingly severe lack of basic health-care...
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