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  • "(1994) The United States expended more than $900 billion on domestic health care…"
    http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/avi/3.html

  • "Each day, 14,000 more people become infected with the HIV virus; half of them are between the ages of 15 and 24. HIV/AIDS is rapidly reversing many of the social and economic gains won by developing countries over the past 50 years. As a co-sponsor of UNAIDS which coordinates the global response to the epidemic the World Bank has committed more than US$1.7 billion to combating the spread of HIV/AIDS around the world. The Bank has pledged that no country with an effective HIV/AIDS strategy will go without funding and, in partnership with African governments, launched the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP), which makes significant resources available to civil society organizations and communities. Many have developed highly innovative HIV/AIDS approaches, which others are now learning from and adapting to local conditions. In 2002, MAP provided US$1 billion to help countries in Africa expand their national prevention, care, and treatment programs. The Bank also approved US$155 million to fight HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean and continues its sup-port to HIV/AIDS programs in other regions."
    http://www.worldbank.org/tenthings/2ndedition/two2.htm

  • Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
    Director-General
    World Health Organization
    December 6, 1999
    "Why Investing in Global Health is Good Politics"
     "Over the course of the last 50 years, at least five times as many Americans have died from communicable diseases that have come to the U.S. from developing countries, than have died in all the military conflicts of the same period."
    http://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/1999/english/19991206_new_york.html

  • WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - Statistics for the United States
     Total population: 285,925,000
    GDP per capita (Intl $): 34,637
    Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 74.3/79.5
    Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 66.4/68.8
    Child mortality m/f (per 1000): 9/7
    Adult mortality m/f (per 1000): 144/83
    Total health expenditure per capita (Intl $): 4,499
    Total health expenditure as % of GDP: 13.0
    http://www.who.int/country/usa/en/

  • Economic Prospects and Policy document from the International Monetary Fund.
    http://www.imf.org/
    http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/chapter1.pdf

  • Fact Sheet on AIDS - Worldwide
    http://www.unaids.org/barcelona/presskit/barcelona%20report/chapter2.html
    Excel Document- Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2002
    http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/epidemiology/pubepidemic2002/en/

  • The Falcon and the Mirage: Managing for Combat Effectiveness, By B.A. "Tony" Kausal,
    November 2001
    http://www.dau.mil/pubs/pdf/FalconandMirage.pdf

    United States
    
  Category	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002 
    
Budget $	255.1	254.2	259.1	272.7	284.2	292.3	295.8
    
% of GDP	3.5	3.3	3.1	3.0	3.0	2.9	
    
AF Budget	74.2	73.1	76.5	80.1	82.1	85.6	88.5
    
AF Modernization	29.1	28.5	29.6	31.9	33.2	34.6	36.9
    
F-16 Budget 	$511m	426m	386m	299m	180m


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