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Specifically, the author mentions childhood diseases, maternal health, and the three diseases HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as the major areas of focus for health care funding in developing countries. Because of the major impact of these conditions, the author notes that the best approach is to target these directly, even if it does impact upon more general primary care structures. The very "fabric of society" is being affected by such conditions, and especially by the HIV / AIDS pandemic; hence the importance of controlling these first.
Proponents of general primary care programs note that the problem with an exclusive focus on major issues like HIV / AIDS is the fact that they often take account only of global infection and mortality figures, as mentioned above, without regard to the specific health concerns as presented on a local scale (Harzhem et al. 2006). While it is helpful and desirable for developed countries to promote the health and well-being of all human beings in the world, this cannot be done on the strength of global statistics. For this reason, Beasly et al. (2007) emphasize the importance of improving the local infrastructure in order to correctly target health care programs. Rannan-Eliya (2010:59) warns that not meeting all the health goals of developing countries inclusively will necessarily lead to further impoverishment. Primary care should therefore not take a subordinate position to major health concerns, but should rather be based upon a local infrastructure that addresses the specific as well as general needs of the community (Murray 1999). Indeed, all human beings deserve to equal access to the health care that they specifically need. To fund Aids programs in favor of more general primary care programs works to the detriment of communal health while also wasting valuable resources.
In conclusions, developing countries face many problems that exacerbate the HIV / AIDS care situation. Poverty, unemployment, instability, and a lack of political will for example all impact primary care programs in developing countries. In addition, a basic lack of adequate resources to implement primary care centers or indeed to make a significant difference in the lives of sufferers has done little to...
The importance of primary care for the improvement of lives across the world should be understood not only on the social and health care level, but at the level of politics as well.
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