Dr. Debrework Zewdie's Four Decades Reshaping Global Health
Discover how Dr. Debrework Zewdie, an Ethiopian immunologist, transformed HIV/AIDS response by securing $1 billion in World Bank funding and reshaping global health policy over four decades." keywords: "Debrework Zewdie, HIV/AIDS, global health, World Bank, immunologist, development, UNAIDS, infectious disease
In the early 1990s, when a young Ethiopian immunologist walked into the World Bank's corridors, the institution's economists were immovable on a fundamental question: Why should they care about AIDS? The disease afflicted, in their view, only the marginal drug users and sex workers in far-flung developing nations. There was no business case. No economic argument. No reason to spend billions on treatment when the wealthiest institutions had spent almost nothing.
Dr. Debrework Zewdie had a different vision. She reframed the entire conversation.
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