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What's in the News at FPIF? May 16, 2002 **IMF and World Bank Blamed for Worst Health Crisis in History Salih Booker, FPIF Advisory Committee member, says, "The IMF and World Bank have much to answer for. Many of the strongest critiques come from Africans, although they have little opportunity to travel to Washington to demonstrate. The policies of the World Bank and IMF have eroded Africa's health care systems and intensified the poverty of Africa's people. These institutions must be made accountable for their role in causing the worst health crisis in human history, which Africa now faces." Africa Action has launched a new campaign called "Africa's Right to Health Campaign." The campaign is based information on a new position paper, Hazardous to Health: The World Bank and IMF in Africa, published by Africa Action and written by Ann-Louise Colgan. According to this new paper, "The policies dictated by the World Bank and IMF exacerbated poverty, providing fertile ground for the spread of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Cutbacks in health budgets and privatization of health services eroded previous advances in health care and weakened the capacity of African governments to cope with the growing health crisis. Consequently, during the past two decades the life expectancy of Africans has dropped by 15 years." For information about Africa Action's campaign and to read the new report, go to: http://www.africaaction.org/action/campaign.htm For analysis by Salih Booker and other Africa Action staff, visit: http://www.fpif.org/advisers/booker.html For more FPIF analysis on Africa, see FPIF Africa index: http://www.fpif.org/indices/regions/africa.html Siri D. Khalsa Interhemispheric Resource Center P.O. Box 2178 Silver City, NM 88062 USA (505) 388-0208 (505) 388-0916 (fax) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Websites: http://www.irc-online.org/ http://www.us-mex.org, http://www.americasprogram.org/ http://www.fpif.org/ , http://www.selfdetermine.org The IRC is a nonprofit research and policy studies institute; a "think tank" without walls. Our two main projects are the Americas Program and Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF). _______________________________________________ stop-imf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/stop-imf To subscribe or unsubscribe by e-mail, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with your administrative request in the subject line. Or go to http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/stop-imf ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Take the Yahoo! Groups survey for a chance to win $1,000. Your opinion is very important to us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/NOFBfD/uAJEAA/Ey.GAA/KlSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
