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Fight Disease, Not Just AIDS

Public health expert urges perspective in global efforts

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 1, 2008 1:05 PM CST

(Newser) – Global action to fight HIV/AIDS is imperative, but wealthy countries should reconsider committing most of their assistance to just one disease, Harvard expert Daniel Halperin writes in today's New York Times. Cheaply preventable illnesses like diarrhea claim many more lives in the poorest African countries...   Read full story »

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