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Nature Medicine 13, 1169 - 1171 (2007)
Published online: 17 September 2007 | doi:10.1038/nm1646

The expanding global health agenda: a welcome development

Anthony S Fauci1

  1. Anthony S. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building 31, Room 7A-03, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. e-mail: afauci@niaid.nih.gov

Over the past decade, issues related to the health of people in resource-poor countries have captured the attention of world leaders, governments, philanthropies, policy makers and the general public as never before. This attention has focused on scientific, public health and humanitarian challenges, and involves biomedical research on vaccine and drug development, implementation of public health measures and a growing realization of the deleterious effects of disease on economic development and political stability1.

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