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From:	joya banerjee [ profile ]
Subject:	Foreign Policy: Africa's Epidemic of Disappearing Medicine
Sent:	Jan 14th, 2011 - 09:46:17

	Foreign Policy Africa's Epidemic of Disappearing Medicine BY ROGER BATE \| JANUARY 11, 2011 The global system for public health donations has a crippling accountability problem. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/11/africas_epidemic_of_disappearing_medicine Excerpt: "Every year, perhaps as many as 30 million donated malaria treatments are stolen, similarly diverted from their intended, needy recipients into the hands of profit-driven distributors. What's most incredible about this, however, is that most of those treatments come from one of the world's most respected public-health donors, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Next week, the body will finally hold a meeting devoted to drawing up a plan to stop the theft. "Theft of medicines is a problem that affects all institutions investing in health services, and we must clamp down on it," said Michel Kazatchkine, the Global Fund's executive director. In the same December 2010 news release, he asked for help: "[N]o single institution can act on its own. We can only solve this challenge if we all work together." But that plea amounts to too little, too late. The Global Fund has always had the power to oversee the distribution of its funds, but it has chronically failed to act on that responsibility "

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