Health
groups are concerned that potential deep budget cuts in United States federal
spending could have direr consequences on global medical progress, especially
for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
The Global Health Technologies Coalition is voicing its concerns about
global health spending cuts to members of congress and the Obama
administration. Leadership by the U.S
government has played a key role in all of the progress that has been made in
fighting diseases, such as AIDS and malaria; and all of the new scientific
breakthroughs in public health. Kaitlin
Christianson, the director of The Global Health Technologies Coalition, stated that
even in these constrained budgetary times U.S policymakers not lose sight of
the commitment and goal of saving lives around the world. Even though some
budget cuts are being made in some aspects of global health funding the Obama
administration has done a good job of providing financial support to Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as the GAVI Alliance,
which is a public/private partnership concentrating on child immunizations. Many of the advances in global health has
coincided with advances in technology.
The Global Health Technologies Coalition is constantly looking for new
ways to advance vaccines, diagnostics, new drugs and other biomedical
technologies to aid in the fight against global health diseases.
With the U.S being a world leader in
global health care many other countries look at our actions and follow
them. If the U.S creates deep budget
cuts it could lead to other countries pulling out more of their support for
global health spending. The continuation
of countries to continue working together to provide healthcare support is
essential to combating infectious diseases that know no boundaries among
boarders. Even though the global
economic situation is at an all time low the efforts towards providing global
health care and finding new efficient ways in how to provide it should not be
stopped. The more vaccines and other medications
that can reach the poor the better off the world population will be. A healthy population is the foundation for a stable
society, as well as government, and economy.
With a more stable world population that can produce and consume a more
stable economy will occur. The U.S can tackle
the global health issue by providing funds for new diagnostic test, vaccines,
treatments, and technologies to provide more efficient and cheaper ways to cure
disease.
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