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Aid Targeting High Mortality Diseases 'Lays The Groundwork' For Improving Primary Health Care Services
"In recent years, initiatives such as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria have helped rein in some of the biggest scourges," Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. "Scaling up PEPFAR, alongside other health initiatives, would bring a high return," because "as we deepen the response to specific diseases such as AIDS or TB, we can broaden access to primary health services," which "lays the groundwork for addressing health problems of all kinds," he continues.
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