Saturday, November 3, 2012

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Officials debate whether to scrap malaria program
FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2009 file photo, a merchant speaks with a woman holding her ill child at a pharmacy in Pailin, Cambodia. The future of a pricey malaria program meant to provide cheap drugs for poor patients may be in jeopardy after health officials clashed over its effectiveness in two new reports. In 2010, the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria was started by groups including United Nations agencies and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It    was a pilot project to subsidize artemesinin combination drugs. Most of the drugs bought were sold in the private sector, where there are few controls on who gets them. But in October 2012, a report by Oxfam, an international charity, labeled the program a failure and said there was no proof it had saved lives because officials didn't track who received the drugs. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)The future of a pricey malaria program meant to provide cheap drugs for poor patients may be in jeopardy after health officials clashed over its effectiveness in two new reports.


Plague of office-buying wears at China's image
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, retired employees of a government office have a light moment at an old hospital administration building in Xilinhot in northern China's Inner Mongolia. Buying and selling office is so rampant in China that it has eroded public trust in officialdom, undermining the ruling Communist Party's image as an institute that promotes the competent, not the connected. Even though Chinese leaders have vowed to er   adicate the practice, it has showed no sign of abatement. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)In a small town in northern China's Inner Mongolia where sheep and cattle easily outnumber humans, Fan Chen paid a party boss three times an average urban resident's annual salary to become a local police chief.


Greek journalists strike to protest austerity plan
A woman passes an array of displays at the Stock Exchange in Athens Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Shares recovered slightly from heavy losses Monday, amid continued uncertainty over a new austerity package due to divisions in the country's coalition government. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Tuesday that the government had essentially ended negotiations on new austerity measures and warned of Greek lawmakers are to vote Wednesday on a privatization bill that will be the first major test for the country's troubled governing coalition, while journalists have walked off the job at the start of rolling 24-hour strikes to protest austerity plans that will affect their healthcare funds.


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