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Do we bear any moral responsibility for improving cancer care in Africa?
1 Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
2 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK
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The health of persons in developing countries is receiving increased attention for several important reasons. First, health is acknowledged to be a major factor in international development; countries whose citizens are in poor health are disadvantaged in economic competition with other countries. Second, the health problems of developing countries and industrialised countries are becoming shared problems. For example, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), a disease that first occurred in sub-Saharan African (SSA), has now spread to all parts of the industrialised world. Smoking and obesity, problems usually identified with industrialised countries, are now also taking a toll in the developing world. Third, health is increasingly viewed as a human rights issue. The inequalities of health between rich and poor countries represent a violation of these rights.
It has been projected by the International Agency for Research on Cancer that 27 million people will discover they have cancer in 2030,
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