Improved Health Critical To Development Of Democracy In Burma ...

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In this post in the Huffington Post Blog, Deborah Derrick, president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, examines the role of health efforts in the rebuilding of Burma, also known as Myanmar. ?According to the World Health Organization, the ruling military leaders? investment in health is only two percent of GDP, among the smallest health budgets in the world,? she writes, adding, ?An estimated 240,000 people in the country are living with HIV/AIDS, and there remains a high risk of malaria, with incidence of drug-resistant malaria spreading.?

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Source: http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/09/18/improved-health-critical-to-development-of-democracy-in-burma/

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