The pie in the sky
The pie in the sky Aid Thoughts It's not clear that if we all beg for bigger slices, we'll just get more pie. Alanna Shaikh rightly points out that, despite the incredible important of funding HIV/AIDS programmes, there are many health problems that are losing out in the fundraising arms race. But here's what I have figured out in the last decade: we can have more pie . Differently put, global health is not a zero-sum game. We can increase the funding that goes to it. In the last ten years, we have. The Global Fund and the Gates Foundation have radically increased the resources available to global health. The private sector has started funding global health, and government donors have increased their commitments. There is nothing wrong with so much attention going to AIDS. HIV gets exactly as much attention as it deserved. It's the second most terrifying pandemic of our time. (I really think first place belongs to MDR TB). About two milli...