[SanjayMehta]

A quick search found a pack of 100 disposable syringes in Pakistan for PKR 1100/- which is less than USD 4.

That's 4 cents per syringe. Seems quite reasonable to me. Seems they don't have economics as an excuse.

https://ailaaj.pk/products/apple-disposable-syringe-5ml-100s

[leonidasrup]

There is strong correlation between life expectancy and GDP per capita.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe...

Been poor is your biggest health risk.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/

[CGMthrowaway]

A month's wage in Pakistan is about $125. So each syringe would feel like a cup of Dunkin does to many in the USA

[bastawhiz]

I have orders of magnitude more cups of Dunkin each year than I get injections at a doctor

[garbawarb]

But Pakistanis don't.

[bastawhiz]

The point is that if the analogy of a $0.04 syringe is supposed to be as expensive as a cup of coffee, it's still not expensive even if you do it often. Maybe they have too many injections. Either way we have a bunch of kids with a disease that can kill because someone thought something as expensive as a cup of coffee was too expensive.

[crazygringo]

Which would be entirely reasonable cost as part of a healthcare visit.

When people complain about healthcare costs, they're not complaining about things that cost the same as a cup of coffee locally.

[kelnos]

I feel like spending the cost of a crappy cup of coffee to get a clean needle so you don't get HIV is money well spent.

[wildzzz]

Median household income in US is $83k so 0.04/125 * 83k is about $26, much more than cup of coffee. If you're sticking like 15 kids a day with the same needle, that's like $400 a day saved.

[MagnumOpus]

You are comparing monthly individual wages in Pakistan to annual household income in the US. That results in your numbers being nonsense.