London - Children in developing countries are dying because governments are cutting their health budgets to meet requirements for aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to a report published today by Christian Aid, the development agency of the Irish and British churches.
The report, Who Lives, Who Dies In An Age Of Third World Debt, says that health spending has been cut by 15 per cent in 53 countries struggling to meet IMF conditions.
One of the authors of the report, Mr Mark Farmaner, pointed to the case of Uganda, where the number of children suffering from measles, cholera and malaria has risen in the last two years.