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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
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Andy
Aug 04, 2012 rated it it was ok
This is an odd book. One of the bizarre aspects is a running diatribe about the way that global health money is spent on prevention instead of on treatment. First of all, it's not either/or. Secondly, if you had to choose, why not overweight prevention, which would save more lives than treatment? Thirdly, what is he talking about? In AIDS, for example, the global health money has been disproportionately spent on treating people with anti-retrovirals vs. preventing infection with condoms, etc. Th ...more
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