Unjust embargo of aid for Haiti
| Autor: | Patrice Nevil, Paul Farmer, Mary C. Smith Fawzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Status International Cooperation media_common.quotation_subject Blame Politics Development economics Humans Medicine Developing Countries Poverty Social disruption Least Developed Countries media_common Humanitarian aid business.industry Public health History 19th Century General Medicine History 20th Century Relief Work Haiti United States Life expectancy Public Health business |
| Zdroj: | The Lancet. 361:420-423 |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0140-6736(03)12380-x |
| Popis: | 2and are matters of life and death for vulnerable populations in many least developed countries, where life expectancy has dropped in these same decades. 3 Some negative health trends are caused by HIV/AIDS and other emerging threats; war and social disruption can be to blame. Indeed, many of the growing health problems of the world’s destitute sick are now regarded as humanitarian crises, and to address these, large international aid bureaucracies have emerged over the past half century. Although most public health and disaster relief experts have argued against the politicisation of aid, most bilateral, and much multilateral, aid remains tied to the political aims of wealthy countries. Such linkage can be subtle (eg, aid will be disbursed only if specific economic policies or political systems are adopted). 4 |
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