Are we ready for the next global health threat? COVID-19 opened the world’s eyes to the inadequacies of our global healthcare system, and it’s on us to change what happens next.
“Healthcare is a human right. It’s something we all need and deserve. It’s something that impacts every single piece of our lives. Without our health, we have nothing. I can’t think of anything more worth fighting for. It’s time we finally got it right.”
Through personal accounts gathered during his nearly forty years of experience in global health, infectious disease physician Joseph Saba provides an eye-opening analysis of healthcare’s resistance to globalization and the implications for our health. His story contrasts the world’s unified response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic with the chaotic handling of COVID-19 to explain healthcare’s dependence on geopolitics. Using anecdotes from his time at the World Health Organization and negotiating medication access with pharmaceutical companies, Joseph shares unparalleled insight into what is needed to expedite solutions for today’s most critical healthcare challenges.
A World Undivided invites all readers to see healthcare delivery from a different angle and proposes a less traveled, but more human way forward.
All proceeds from the book will be donated to support treatment for patients in need in low- and middle-income countries.
“A provocative critique of the health care industry’s failings and a hopeful look at its future.” - Kirkus Reviews
Meet the Author
Joseph Saba, MD, is an infectious disease physician working on the frontline of access to healthcare since the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He served in the World Health Organization and the United Nations Program on AIDS, where he led a global research effort on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and established the first access program for antiretrovirals in low- and middle-income countries. For the last twenty-five years, he has led Axios International, a healthcare access company he co-founded, which has developed programs to improve patient access to healthcare in more than 100 countries. As a result of his groundbreaking work in the field of access to healthcare, Joseph was named one of the top 100 Healthcare Leaders 2023 by Forbes Middle East.
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