Global Health Diplomacy, “San Francisco Values,” and HIV/AIDS: From the Local to the Global

In the 21st century, the integration between diplomatic, medical, and global health practices will continue under “smart global health” and GHD paradigms. These approaches will enhance intervention cost-effectiveness by addressing and optimizing, in tandem with each other, a wide range of (health and non-health) foreign policy, diplomatic, security, and economic priorities in a synergistic manner-without sacrificing health outcomes.