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SICKNESS AND WEALTH

THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON
GLOBAL HEALTH

EDITED BY MEREDITH FORT, MARY ANNE MERCER, AND OSCAR GISH

"Militarization, privatization, and unfair trade policies are in fact tightly linked to diseases such as malaria, cholera, and AIDS. Sickness and Wealth exposes the mechanisms of these connections."

—Paul Farmer, Partners in Health

• The HMOs that have undermined affordable health care in the U.S. have created a health care crisis in Latin America, too. (See Chapter 6, by Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy.)

• The South African government cuts off the clean water supply to those who can't pay. The result: a cholera epidemic causing 300 deaths and infecting over 150,000 others. (See Chapter 10, by Patrick Bond.)
  

• Infant formula can again be marketed as "healthier" than breastmilk, thanks to WTO regulations forced by the U.S., even in regions with limited access to clean water. (See Chapter 7, by Ellen Shaffer and Joseph Brenner.)
  
  
• AIDS can be effectively treated in poor countries—when Big Pharma and its government lobbyists are forced to step out of the way. (See Chapter 12, by Paul Davis and Meredith Fort.)

For SICKNESS AND WEALTH: THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON GLOBAL HEALTH, internationally renowned experts—including Third World Network's Evelyne Hong and International Forum on Globalization's Vandana Shiva—have sent in powerful dispatches from around the world, showing how privatization and reduced social services guarantee devastating consequences for millions.

A groundbreaking collection, SICKNESS AND WEALTH also documents the pioneering work of organizations committed to the radical notion that the right to good health is not for sale.