Improving Global Healthcare: Unions and Activism

Dying patients and their desperate families without hope to save them due to the lack of necessary infrastructure to serve them, it is one of the pictures frequently seen in rural areas of poor countries. For low-income people health is a utopia even in developed countries. The United States has advanced technology, and successful surgical procedures; however it has a health system in crisis. Cities such as Boston, New York, Atlantic City have tried to find the solution to amend the health sector and provide a system of affordable health care through successful models used in countries like Haiti, Rwanda and Peru. Also, the U.S government and politicians have step forward to improve its care system through 2010 Affordable Care Act which

These unions, not only improves health delivery, but improves the lives of their partners. To illustrate, According to “AIDS activism has changed activism itself” according to Patricia Siplon “The success of AIDS activism created a new model featuring direct action, self-employment, and self-education first for other health-based groups and ultimately even for activist groups outside the health realm” ( Farmer, et al., 2013). AIDS activists are a sample of the power of partnerships. As they raise their quality of life, they help others groups to improve their health. No group is small when it comes to defending the right to health. To illustrate, students with their innovative ideas and their desire to succeed in a more just society have always shown that they can make a difference from their classrooms “advocacy for these policies over the past decade has been driven by a wide coalition including the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an international organization that is largely student-run” ( Farmer, et al., 2013). Currently universities are the basis of scientific research where students guided by their teachers have found the cure for many diseases. Also, the union of health programs infrastructure, technology, health professionals creates a efficient health delivery “One program established by Partners In Health, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has provided chemotherapy to patients with cervical, breast, rectal, and squamous head and neck cancers, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the rural reaches of Haiti, Rwanda, and Malawi” ( Farmer, et al., 2013). The coalition of several programs generates a diagonal approach to improve health systems. This alliance instead of just using the