Note on contributor
Alan Whiteside has a BA and MA from the School of Development Studies of the University of East Anglia and a D Econ from the University of Natal. He established and ran the Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division in Durban until 2013 when he joined the Balsiliie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honour's List in 2014.
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Notes
1. The global health theme is universal health coverage with access to safe, effective and affordable essential medicines.
2. This is slightly misleading. It does not matter what people die of; as long as the number of deaths of HIV-infected people is lower than the number of new infections, the pool of people requiring treatment will grow.
3. This may change with the Ebola epidemic, but it is unlikely.