Delivering medicine to the world's poorest people is a challenge. Hot, poor places such as Tanzania have many microbes but microscopic health budgets. Because they cannot afford adequate health care, poor people are sick a lot of time (The economist, 17/8/2002). Another report by the UNAIDS published in 1988 says, "Access to even the most basic drugs is seriously lacking in the Third World". All these statements unanimously assert that, in effect, that there is a serious shortage of widespread medical supplies in the Third World. In addition, as it was mentioned in the Economist (2001, p.75), rich countries have no problems with sharing their diseases but they are quite reluctant to share their wealth. They have transmitted infections such as tuberculosis to developing countries very "easily" but it was not so straightforward for them to share the pharmaceutical solutions to those infections. In these Third World countries, such as South Africa, there is a complete lack of medical supplies being dispersed equally, but if this were any different, then maybe we would not have a Third World as a consequence.
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[...] The situation there clearly shows the actual dispersal of drugs, as hundreds of thousands die every year from diseases including AIDS that could have been alleviated with medicines. South Africa does not escape from the main problem of drug dispersal in Third World countries: affordability. Indeed, as UNAIDS (1998) explained it, “HIV/AIDS is quite recent in medical history” therefore “most drugs created especially to treat HIV infection are proprietary and expensive”. Another fact illustrating the “health is sick of the profit”, countries concentrate 90% of the people with AIDS, but they only get 14% of the expenditures for prevention, and for healthcare (Convergences Revolutionaries, 2002). [...]
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[...] This explains why, in spite of the attempts to improve active dispersal of drugs and make them flow to developing countries, the situation is not that easy with regard to distribution not only in South Africa, but also to the rest of the Third World. First, it is necessary to think about the number of drugs. process of providing medication is not as simple as just buying drugs and giving them to patients who require them” (WHO, n.d.). Originally, the medicines have to be produced. [...]
[...] However, would that be enough for the Third World or would it simply enable developing countries to catch up in the field of medicine? Developed countries move on technologically and medically whilst the developing countries are held back, the gap seemingly getting wider, and therefore less and less possible to overcome. As Research and Development contributes to maintain a continuing gap, we can remain a bit skeptical BIBLIOGRAPHY Books Alder, M.W. (1993). ABC of AIDS. edited by / with contribution by C.A.Aitken. [...]
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