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IMF Aid Substituting, Not Supplementing Existing Health Spending, Study Finds
International Monetary Fund (IMF) "aid to some of the poorest countries [is] not being used to supplement existing spending on public health projects, but instead it often substitutes state spending," according to a study published in the International Journal of Health Services, Press Trust India/MSN reports. "The study comes at a time when there is serious concern about whether developing countries will meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on global health by 2015," the news service writes (Sonwalker, 1/19).
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