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Developments:
The Government of Zambia spends the equivalent of $50 per year on each Zambian's health. Given the country's high rates of HIV infection, an antiretroviral drug program will require a quadrupling in health spending. This will save money in terms of hospital costs for sick patients and working hours lost to AIDS, but in a country where two thirds of the population lives on less than $1 a day and half are undernourished, diverting funds to ARV programs will inevitably mean other valuable investments being curtailed.
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