Sep 17 2009
The Financial Times' health section published several global health reports that "focus on the diseases and healthcare issues that affect millions but are often absent from the health debate in rich countries."
The articles cover a variety of topics including: the global tuberculosis burden and disease-related stigma; healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and South Africa; the effect of conflict on "already stretched healthcare systems"; insect-borne diseases; and the emergence of public-private partnerships to deal with neglected tropical diseases.
According to the Financial Times, the "increasing convergence of interests" between developing countries and the developed world "means there now may be cautious hope for the future" (Greenhalgh, 9/15).
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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