When Anil Soni (Indianapolis, United States of America, 1976) settled in the middle of his college career at Arts and Social Sciences at Harvard, all in 1996, he had specialized in a single discipline: he worked as a sociologist, professor and , including, in some department of human resources. Pero en vez de seguir volcado en los libros, decidió asomarse al mundo: marcho a Ghana par hacer un volunteereariado y, lo que se podia haber quedado en una anecdota de juventud, se convertión un un experiencecia que le Marcó hasta dot de defini el resto de su vida hasta la fecha.
This is the second anniversary of the recent nomination of the CEO of the World Health Organization, a recent entity created to recover financial support from private donors for OMS programs. Between the Salvation Army and the Legislature, there are more than a dozen decades of career dedicated to the defense of access to health and, in particular, to the loop against the side.
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“I had the hope of working in a school, but I met people who had very different opportunities in the past. I live in a place where I have a good educational system, good medical attention, vacancies … And, as a consequence, I have the possibility to start everything I have. But that was not the case in this pueblo donde vivía, and that inequality is really my attention, ”recorded Soni de Aquel via Travel to Africa Occidental, during a video call conversation.
Going to the United States, inspired by what we have seen and decided to do with respect, found that there are not many alternative alternatives to specialize in, such as a so-called “AIDS, Public Health and Human Rights” assignment conferred by an entity no very conocido Jonathan Mann. This epidemiologist, he failed, was the person who created the global program against the side of the World Health Organization. “It was my first entry into the VIH / Sida community. During the next few years I was offered as a volunteer in a hospital, researched and inspired by the lucha against the virus as the desirability that exists to obtain treatment at this time “, recorded about an era in which in the United States the site passed by be a death sentence to be a nurse who can control grace to the antiretrovirals. “Pero en resto del mundo nadie tenía acceso a ellos”, relata.
The naturalness of its activists will increase its impact. “It is a community of people who embrace the diversity of the human condition. In recent years and now, VIH’s patients have been stigmatized for having relationships with men, because they are sex professionals or because they use injectable drugs. And this community says that we all have the same rights and that we are all human. Fueron convincetes para mi, y eso es lo que marko mi carrera ”, reconione Soni.
Since its inception in the university, this public health expert has planted in the VIH of these two fronts: in the public sector, in the private sector and in philanthropy. Passed by the Global Fund against Malaria, the Side and the Tuberculosis (GlobalFund), participated in the creation of the Clinton Initiative for Access to Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the last eight years has been in the pharmaceutical Viatris, leader in the manufacture of antiretroviral. In December 2020, the CEO of the OMS Foundation was appointed, creating only one month ago. And atriest in the can with the priorities in mind: one, mount the organization in the literal sense of the word (“Need to contract staff, establish commercial systems, ensure that we invest in investment …”) and you, show the “value “From the entity. “Last year, the OMS said that it wanted to create a solidarity fund, and finally lifted it to the foundation. of the United Nations, which received 250 million dollars between corporations and individuals ”, said in reference to the Solidarity Response Fund prior to the covid-19 of the organization. “My priority is to maintain this impetus, to ensure that we respond and we recover from covid-19, the private sector supported by the OMS”, indicated.
We need a long-term strategy to promote global equity and access to health and the recovery of health care systems
The inequality that was found in Ghana in 1996 permanently lasts 25 years, and now the pandemic is the most patented. If we are to say that, well, in the global north there is a vacancy for all, but it is also in less developed countries. But, even if it were to happen, even if one were to wake up to all humanity, the problems would lie ahead of time: … ”enumera.
Además, considered a fundamental question as humanity ensures a sufficient capacity to respond to other pandemics that can occur in the future. “We need a long-term strategy to promote global equity and access to health and the recovery of health care systems. And it is hoped that the Foundation will be able to orientate this work to a large space and ensure that there is support for doing so, ”he said.
And yet, without losing sight of the number of people affected by other diseases that are causing the risk of deaths caused by the pandemic, as has been seen with the difficulties that are prevalent in programs against malaria and other diseases. tuberculosis. However, if the same precedent is already in place, the maintenance of the primary systems of attention in large areas, then its stability will increase. “In the last 20 years we have seen a tremendous increase in the capacity of our governors, because we are dealing with systems that only have a single payer [el Estado] to prevent primary medical attention to its populations, ”he said. Therefore, now it is “extremely important” to help recover and ensure that continuous attention is paid to health with a good coverage and good quality. “Certainly, the vast majority of countries will be affected by the pandemic and, for that matter, the mayor will not help.”
And without embarrassment, when the word “challenge” is mentioned, there is no such thing as being in a global crisis in the mind. It calls attention to more dangerous places where it has not been able to install a special sanitary cover, even if it contains all the resources available for reference to its citizens. And he mentions, precisely, his native country: “In the Mayor part of the world in disarray, the treatment for the side costs 70 dollars per person and year, but in the United States costs 30,000 dollars”, insure. “When working with Viatris we intend to reduce the price of medicines, but we will not have to reduce the nature of the sanitary system; is a roto system. […] “Everybody has access and covertness, but the system is not designed to be efficient,” she said.
When working with Viatris we intend to reduce the price of medicines, but we will not have to reduce the nature of the sanitary system; is a roto system
The other way to solve it is to record the sustainability of the inversions in health because it is the only way to record economic development and social justice. However, although it is applauded that rich lands are compromised with foundations, they must not be separated from the prism of love. “I believe that the challenge is: will we learn that resources are better and more sustainable in order to achieve global equity? And I do not believe that we are going to succeed, ”lamented.
For Soni, the answer to his question is not to confide in civil society, not only to ensure that the governors continue to contribute to the development. Confidence that the change will take place on one issue, and by then, a single decision in 2016, despite Donald Trump being elected president. Following the concept of zakat, the third pillar of Islam, decided to donate at least 5% of its total enrollment. “I do not say it with the motive of an organ, it is a question as to the form in which you can agree with me. “Whoever creates a culture in which individual action can mold politicians and governors, because millions of people hiccup the same and love their part, create that politicians tend to follow the example”.
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