When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of patients who showed up for treatment, they turned to an unusual place for help: southern Africa. Full Story »
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An interesting look at how simpler, cheaper diagnostic treatment models used in Zambia are being applied to Alabama. Pulls in crucial points about how if U.S. insurance companies will not pay for a new technology (even if more cost effective and/or better in some ways), that new technology won't get tried here.
Straight reporting with honest grappling of both sides of a specific health care issue. Fails to connect with some larger issues.
Not sure I agree with all that is written. I did not like this article at all