Articles by Jon Henley in Athens
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Greece on the Breadline: HIV and Malaria Make a Comeback
Jon Henley in Athens – The Guardian,
19 Mar 2012
The savage cuts to Greece’s health service budget have led to a sharp rise in HIV/Aids and malaria in the beleaguered nation, said the head of Médecins sans Frontières Greece on Thursday [15 Mar 2012]. The incidence of HIV/Aids among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250% in the first 10 months of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since the rule of the colonels, which ended in the 1970s.
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