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Ethical challenges in long-term funding for HIV/AIDS.
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PMID:  19887407     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The global response to the AIDS pandemic aims for universal access to treatment and for pursuing every possible avenue to prevention. Skeptics, doubting that the huge increases in current funding levels needed for universal treatment will ever happen, would scale back antiretroviral treatment in favor of more cost-effective preventive interventions. Economics, politics, and science figure in this debate. But there is also a question of ethical principle: Is there a moral imperative to emphasize treatment, even if emphasizing prevention would save more lives? The authors examine moral arguments that address this question, and come down on the side of saving the most lives via prevention.
Authors:
Dan W Brock; Daniel Wikler
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health affairs (Project Hope)     Volume:  28     ISSN:  1544-5208     ISO Abbreviation:  Health Aff (Millwood)     Publication Date:    2009 Nov-Dec
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-11-05     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8303128     Medline TA:  Health Aff (Millwood)     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1666-76     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. dan_brock@hms.harvard.edu
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