Economics (Conference News)

Global Prevention, Funding, Accountability Debated in Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 18th, 1999

At the Third International Conference on Healthcare Resource Allocation for HIV/AIDS and Other Life-Threatening Illnesses held in Vienna, Austria, October 11-13, 1999, world leaders, physicians, economists, governmental health organizations, and pharmaceutical manufacturers discussed the economic, ethical, and human rights issues underlying health care resource allocation.

Some of the highlights of the meeting included:

Consequences of a fragmented response to a global crisis. In his keynote speech opening the Vienna conference, former U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan argued that a "better balance of financial and human...

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