The European Commission is determined to redouble its efforts to fight HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, reports the World Bank press review Monday.
To this end, the Commission has just adopted a communication establishing the political framework of this reinforced fight against three transmissible poverty diseases.
The objective of this new strategy remains the fight against poverty, and the fight against the three infectious diseases will continue to be backed up by the increasingly broad range of EU policies which have their part to play: trade, development, research, health and external relations.
For the first time, however, the Commission has announced a two-pronged attack, concentrating on:
-human rights, to avoid worsening the
-the implications of these disease for human safety, being that they decimate communities and destroy social cohesion (which is most particularly the case with HIV/Aids);
-the coherence of the answers to be found to these three diseases in all of the EUs external relations (beyond just development policy).
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
