Abstract
Delivering medicine to the world's poorest people is a challenge. Hot, poor places such as Tanzania have many microbes but microscopic health budgets. Because they cannot afford adequate health care, poor people are sick a lot of time (The economist, 17/8/2002). Another report by the UNAIDS published in 1988 says, "Access to even the most basic drugs is seriously lacking in the Third World". All these statements unanimously assert that, in effect, that there is a serious shortage of widespread medical supplies in the Third World. In addition, as it was mentioned in the Economist (2001, p.75), rich countries have no problems with sharing their diseases but they are quite reluctant to share their wealth. They have transmitted infections such as tuberculosis to developing countries very "easily" but it was not so straightforward for them to share the pharmaceutical solutions to those infections. In these Third World countries, such as South Africa, there is a complete lack of medical supplies being dispersed equally, but if this were any different, then maybe we would not have a Third World as a consequence.
