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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
Researchers at University of Antwerp target HIV/AIDS co-infection
September 30th, 2008
"The Debt2Health Conversion Scheme of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is used to reassess a range of recent initiatives that propose debt relief in exchange for spending in the health sector. The experience with debt swaps in the mid 1990s was far from positive, and recent improved insight in the economics of debt relief suggests extreme caution," investigators in Antwerp, Belgium report. "We argue that the recent spade of debt swap proposals, even if targeting countries and debt titles that fall outside current major international debt relief mechanisms, share most of the design faults of previous initiatives. Proposals such as Debt2Health do...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-30)
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