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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2000;283:2510-2513.

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Atlanta—African health ministers have added a new postscript to a familiar message. Their nations need more aid from industrialized nations if devastating health crises are to be resolved, but they want more control in decision making and less bureaucratic red tape in obtaining aid.

More specifically, they want the United States to commit $10 billion during the next 5 years. They also admonished a major donor—the World Bank—for having complicated procedures that may be preventing up to $1.5 billion in aid from reaching Africans with HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.

During a rare conference that gathered 35 African health ministers on US soil last month, Swaziland's minister pleaded for action to break down bureaucratic obstacles to obtaining international aid. "We have come all this way to find out practical solutions now, not to publish one more document or proposal. This is very complex—we are dying," said Phestile . . . [Full Text of this Article]