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WHO report outlines plan for new health spending, points to way out of poverty to health

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 10th, 2002

Scaling Up the Response to Infectious Diseases: A Way out of Poverty, a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNAIDS, the World Bank, UNESCO and UNFPA, was launched at the World Economic Forum in New York on February 2, 2002.

Scaling Up calls for a well-organized and highly focused effort to take proven strategies and massively increase their availability.

"Almost 6 million people are killed every year by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria alone," said Carol Bellamy, UNICEF's executive director. "Malaria and HIV are some of the major causes of stagnating, and in some cases, rising infant and under-5 mortality...

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