Promoting sustainable health reinforces and advances human and global development. Epidemics and infectious diseases -- HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, pandemic influenza, and many others -- are affecting entire populations at the social, economic and even political level. The implications for development are so notorious that health-related issues are becoming a policy focus of governments around the globe. The health aspects of humanitarian crises, diseases which persist regardless of the availability of effective treatments, and a widening gap in research and innovation of medications are just some of the issues being tackled by international health organisations and health rights activists..