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Cuts To Health Budget Lead To Increases In HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB Incidence In Greece
"The savage cuts to Greece's health service budget have led to a sharp rise in HIV/AIDS and malaria in the beleaguered nation, said a leading aid organization on Thursday," the Guardian's "News Blog" reports. "The incidence of HIV/AIDS among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250 percent in the first 10 months of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year, according to" Reveka Papadopoulos, "the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres [MSF] Greece, while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since ... the 1970s," the blog notes.
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