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Global partnerships for health*
Robert Beaglehole
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There are two items in this issuethe first is a response to G.H. Brundtland's paper published in European Journal of Public Health, Volume 15(1). The second is on public health genetics.
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As a reflexion on Dr Brundtland's speech, I would like to stress the important role global partnerships can play in the struggle for equitable health improvement. Dr Brundtland's focus, reasonably, is on infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS and SARS. She puts much emphasis on the undoubted successes in 2003 in controlling SARS, but less emphasis on our shamefully slow response to HIV/AIDS. The real lesson from SARS