Frenk, can you give us an example of how globalization has helped a healthcare problem?
Dr. Frenk: Theres now close to four million people, most of them very poor, most of them in Africa, who now have access to AIDs treatment, something that no one would have thought possible when these drugs were introduced at prices that made them completely unaffordable. So this is an example of how globalization can bring us together around shared goals, and how globalization really spawns global civil society movements. Crane: What role does the media, and more broadly, communication have in facilitating healthcare in a globalized world? Dr. Frenk: I always say that communication has a place next to vaccines. And the reason is very simple. Health is not something that a doctors or a nurse does for you. The patient is a co-producer of his or her own health. First of all by the behavior: do you smoke, do you not smoke; do you practice safe sex or not; do you eat healthy or not; our own behaviors. Second by the decision to go to a health facility or not. And third, once we are given a p
