Protecting the Health of the Poor

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health. While the world''s affluent spend fortunes on the most trifling treatments, poor people''s lives are ruined and often cut short prematurely by challenges that could easily be overcome at low cost: childbirth, diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, pneumonia. Millions are avoidably d...