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Correcting Globalisation in Health: Transnational Entitlements versusthe Ethical Imperative of Reducing Aid-Dependency

Correcting Globalisation in Health: Transnational Entitlements versusthe Ethical Imperative of... • • • PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS VOLUME 1 NUMBER 2 2008 154–170 154 Correcting Globalisation in Health: Transnational Entitlements versus the Ethical Imperative of Reducing Aid-Dependency Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Corresponding author: Gorik Ooms, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Tel.: +32-3-247.66.66, Fax: +32-3-216.14.31, E-mail: gooms@itg.be There is growing tension between arguments for colonized’ commented Moses Sserwanga (2007) of The increasing foreign assistance to achieve the Millennium Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) calling for the November Development Goals and arguments for reducing foreign 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to assistance so as to avoid a new form of colonisation. endorse and pursue fair trade, not aid as the route to This essay argues that the impact of the global economy human development. on access to healthcare in developing countries requires Sserwanga is not alone in this view. Captured by global corrective measures. It acknowledges the risk of the slogan ‘Trade, Not Aid’, the ethical imperative of foreign assistance being used for illegitimate purposes, reducing aid-dependency is increasingly supported by but argues that if foreign assistance were provided within well-intended voices from the so-called ‘global South’ a human http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Health Ethics Oxford University Press

Correcting Globalisation in Health: Transnational Entitlements versusthe Ethical Imperative of Reducing Aid-Dependency

Ooms, Gorik; Hammonds, Rachel
Public Health Ethics , Volume 1 (2) – Jul 30, 2008
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• • • PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS VOLUME 1 NUMBER 2 2008 154–170 154 Correcting Globalisation in Health: Transnational Entitlements versus the Ethical Imperative of Reducing Aid-Dependency Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Corresponding author: Gorik Ooms, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Tel.: +32-3-247.66.66, Fax: +32-3-216.14.31, E-mail: gooms@itg.be There is growing tension between arguments for colonized’ commented Moses Sserwanga (2007) of The increasing foreign assistance to achieve the Millennium Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) calling for the November Development Goals and arguments for reducing foreign 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to assistance so as to avoid a new form of colonisation. endorse and pursue fair trade, not aid as the route to This essay argues that the impact of the global economy human development. on access to healthcare in developing countries requires Sserwanga is not alone in this view. Captured by global corrective measures. It acknowledges the risk of the slogan ‘Trade, Not Aid’, the ethical imperative of foreign assistance being used for illegitimate purposes, reducing aid-dependency is increasingly supported by but argues that if foreign assistance were provided within well-intended voices from the so-called ‘global South’ a human

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