AIDS: The damage and forgotten
12 years http://www.sina.com.cn 2008 on 23:43 on 03, "Global Entrepreneur" magazine


In the Asian financial crisis, a Chinese special "FDI" is also faced with the plight of hunger and thirst: AIDS

"Global Entrepreneurs" Lichen Lei

40-year-old Yi quiet, not tall, large joints of the hands to tell him the pressure. He was a farmer, one AIDS patient, AIDS, a mutual aid organization of enthusiastic people. China is behind in its more than 800,000 people infected with AIDS, and the last three years at an annual rate of more than 25% of the increase in speed. Now, his fate with the other side of the ocean linked to Obama.

5 years ago, China started to provide free AIDS treatment, Yi is the first batch of beneficiaries, for which he was relieved the burden of treating the tens of thousands of dollars. Not long ago, but Yi's body had a virus resistance, he must replace second-line drug alternative - usually a few times higher than the first-line drugs, and can not be taken as soon interrupted. Last year, China began to carry out second-line drugs free of the pilot, a limited supply, Yi once again become a lucky person. But now, the expensive pilot of the sponsors of the Global Fund - a disease similar to the popular "of the United Nations," the agency has a fund-raising difficult dilemma. And the role of the contributions of the United Nations, the Global Fund to the United States is the main source of funding.

China every year for AIDS prevention and treatment funding, at least half of the funds from the international and NGO aid, of which the Global Fund since 2003 to aid China in its object, 5 years donated more than 200,000,000 U.S. dollars. However, the financial crisis in the United States out of the Ministry of Finance 700,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, the Global Fund's financing is facing great difficulties. This coming December 1 of the International AIDS Day has cast an ominous shadow.

November 8, to be held in Delhi in India, the Global Fund to the 18th Council of the Board, one by one to reduce the project budget for the application of the solution to the shortage of challenges. Accordingly, Article 9 of the Global Fund project application approval date will be postponed for 6 months. Kenya has been devoted to AIDS testing is considered to be Obama's support AIDS prevention and control of the radical leaders of the Global Fund's directors hope Obama will be able to quickly bring out the plight of the U.S. economy, but also can be sustained in the United States on AIDS The responsibility should be. But even if Obama will live up to their expectations, I have to wait until January to live in the White House.

Yi seems to have a wait. Not long ago, when he had the opportunity on behalf of the people who were sitting in the AIDS "cocktail" in front of the father of David Ho, he's only 87 targets CD4 (CD4 value of the health of people in between 500-1600), at any time may be a result of complications Dead. Talking about, Ho was surprised to find that its assistance projects, implementation of the Yi people's health status has become the largest project risks. Ho personally prepared and made available to Liu the most advanced second-line drugs six months of the dose.

Yi was not happy with. He can not be identified, so the scarcity of drug use once, it can in half a year later to find? If not found, the body of its new drug-resistant virus brought about by factors let him die. Yi, pointing to their pigsties in a few pigs calculations account: a more than 100 kilograms of pig Wu Liubai in order to earn dollars, and the circles of 4 pigs can not even David Ho, in exchange for the provision of the half-dose formulations . If not free, and continued for the drug, he will be hard to sustain.

China's free AIDS treatment has been 5 years, Yi, together with about 50,000 AIDS patients alive as long as most of the resistance has reached a critical point. 5 years for China's AIDS prevention and treatment of special funds has more than 4,000,000,000 yuan. This is not good for the number of AIDS infections in 2001 from 45 million up to 80 million people still lack the tremendous increase in terms, let alone cope with the increasing resistance of the people of consumption.

"The Global Fund has recognized that the official in-house fund is facing financial difficulties, difficulties in raising a short period of time to solve." China Global Fund Observer, CEO of Ping Jia told the project "Global Entrepreneurs", the impact of financial crisis is far from over, the Global Fund Action was slow in practice NGO and charity fund-raising amount of the fund wind vane, other funds such as the Gates Foundation, the Sino-British project, the Clinton fund new projects are in a critical period in the negotiations, it will follow step-by-step Global Fund?

Game

Misfortunes never come singly, the Chinese treatment of AIDS drug supply-side approach is also at this time there have been subtle changes. "On the moon, the Office for the Olympic Games, you may no longer need to fully enjoy the benefits of developing the well-being." To the end of a well-known multinational pharmaceutical companies with the Ministry of Health on the second-line AIDS drugs procurement joked to the negotiating table. Chinese negotiators did not show weakness, then take the initiative to suspend the negotiations, the negotiations out of the room to the Northeast Pharmaceutical Factory in charge of people called: strong stand ready to imitation.

Free of charge in the prevention and treatment system, China has been in accordance with the International AIDS drugs in developing countries in accordance with the status quo established by the purchase price to buy second-line drugs in small quantities. However, the Chinese government to be at a lower price to buy a large scale in order to provide such as Yi-resistant patients. The two sides in the negotiations on the price of a stalemate, second-line drugs can not be a guarantee on the number. This is Yi's difficult to continue treatment.