Unaccountable western NGOs have great influence over the way African governments manage their affairs. The only problem is, they normally get things wrong.
Increasing patient resistance to ARVs and anti-malarial drugs pose a huge threat to the health systems of poorer countries - yet drug resistance is being encouraged by the short-sighted policies of multilateral organisations and NGOs.
THE UN agency coordinating global action against AIDS is wiping egg off its face after reluctantly admitting it had overestimated India's AIDS figures by more than half - following numerous similar exaggerations worldwide. Crying wolf is neither good science nor good politics.
The quality of Britain's single-payer healthcare system has been entirely misrepresented by Michael Moore in his latest film, according to Helen Evans, a registered nurse from London.
Michael Moore's latest film portrays Canada's healthcare system as a utopian combination of equity and efficiency. The reality is quite the opposite says Brett Skinner of Canada's Fraser Institute.
Health policy guru Mark McClellan was the keynote speaker at our major conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC, answering with a resounding 'Yes!' the question we had posed in the title of our event, 'Is there a role for markets in health care?'
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UPI reports on the recent IPN/Galen Institute healthcare symposium in Washington DC, in which speakers from overseas told Americans about the realities of life under different forms of healthcare systems.
Thailand claims that its decision to issue compulsory licenses for several western-owned medicines is in the public interest. However, this policy risks increasing already serious resistance to AIDS medicines, with terrible implications for public health.
