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The chance that Mr. Du, and those like him, will find help in China is slim; at present, most clinics and hospitals are not adequately prepared to treat HIV-infected
patients.
For example, Xiangfan’s Infectious Diseases Hospital is the prefecture’s only health facility where HIV/AIDS
patients
can be admitted.
Indeed, information is so limited and the stigma so strong that ordinary people – and sometimes medical personnel – often ostracize AIDS
patients.
Patients
who do receive care are often treated with substandard, even harmful, medicine.
According to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations,
patients
in China can have a 40-50% chance of being sold fake over-the-counter remedies and an even higher chance of being sold fake prescription drugs.
Although MSF uses its own drug supply, Chinese
patients
still often buy medicine with unknown ingredients and efficacy on the street.
Improper use of these medicines fosters HIV resistance and provides little therapeutic value for
patients.
At the same time that we prepare for the emergence of Disease X, we must also strengthen the kind of supportive health-care systems that help
patients
live full, healthy lives.
Most important, Casalud planners, understanding that primary-care providers in clinics have only a small window to educate
patients
on improving their own quality of care, introduced mobile technologies to enable ongoing monitoring and patient-provider communication between visits.
Initially launched in 2009 in clinics across seven Mexican states, by 2015, it had been extended to clinics in 20 states, serving 1.3 million
patients
per year.
It means accompanying
patients
along the full continuum of care, to ensure that they live long, healthy, and productive lives.
Mobile telephones can help deliver affordable urban health care by serving as diagnostic tools for taking pictures, and by their usefulness for writing prescriptions and monitoring the condition of
patients
in low-income areas.
And individuals who are billed for services understand that providers generally do not attempt to collect from low-income
patients.
Moreover, those who are no longer in the Medicaid program do not lose care from the many doctors who now refuse to serve Medicaid
patients
because of the low fees allowed in the program.
It is not surprising that the prospect of adding these costs for tens of millions of
patients
to states’ budgets and to hospital costs causes state governors and hospital administrators to protest when Congress proposes cutting back on the Medicaid program.
These local practitioners serve as the gatekeepers to a system that has reduced waiting times and financial burdens by treating
patients
directly – often at patients’ homes.
The US is brimming with educated young people who, as CHWs, could bridge the gap between medical facilities and patients, thereby improving American social capital and health outcomes.
Full anonymity explains why efficiency rules – say, leaving the most “expensive”
patients
untreated when resources are scarce – meet with no protest.
Perhaps a maximally extended life expectancy is of higher value to you than living in a society where doctors do not leave curable
patients
to die if they cannot pay for the required treatment out of their own pockets.
But I was told that only
patients
in need of emergency medical evacuation would be allowed out – not students.
The local hospitals lack the equipment needed to perform many important procedures, like radiation treatments for cancer
patients
and heart surgery.
Before Obamacare, hospitals would simply pass the higher costs of treating them on to other
patients.
It will provide space for generations of health professionals to learn how to heal patients, comprehend the sociology of disease, and build the health systems that make a strong society.
During the 1990’s, many adult psychotherapy
patients
began to recall having been sexually abused during childhood.
As Monica explains, sheepishly, that Esteban is actually open-minded, it dawns on me that I've been hearing a lot of similar stories recently, from female friends and
patients.
When Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, hiked the price of the toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim – a lifesaving treatment for AIDS
patients
– from $13.50 per tablet to $750, his reputation tanked.
Like developed countries, emerging and developing countries import some – if not all – of their medicines, the cost of which is mainly covered by the
patients
themselves, given these countries’ lack of health insurance.
Health in Hard PlacesBASEL – When it comes to health care, all stakeholders – patients, service providers, pharmaceutical companies, and governments – know that something needs to change.
I believe, however, that traditional corporate-responsibility efforts, such as donating medicines to
patients
who cannot afford health care, are no longer enough.
This includes select over-the-counter products, which we sell in smaller, more affordable packages, helping to keep patients’ weekly out-of-pocket costs low.
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