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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/mar/15/greece-breadline-hiv-malariaThe savage cuts to Greece's health service budget have led to a sharp rise in HIV/Aids and malaria in the beleaguered nation, said a leading aid organisation on Thursday.
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, according to the head of Médecins sans Frontières Greece, while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since the rule of the colonels, which ended in the 1970s.
Reveka Papadopoulos said that following health service cuts, including heavy job losses and a 40% reduction in funding for hospitals, Greek social services were "under very severe strain, if not in a state of breakdown. What we are seeing are very clear indicators of a system that cannot cope". The heavy, horizontal and "blind" budget cuts coincided last year with a 24% increase in demand for hospital services, she said, "largely because people could simply no longer afford private healthcare. The entire system is deteriorating".
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Developing Austerity Disaster: Greek society is in the process of collapsing. (Original Post)
TalkingDog
Mar 2012
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Confusious
(8,317 posts)1. The future of America? nt
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)2. Nnnnnope.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)3. I'm taking notes
since we should get an idea of where this can lead us.
People may disagree for various reasons, so I will just state that I have seen enough, read enough and know enough to extrapolate something on that scale here, though it will have its own style flavor.
We're slouching along toward a cultural breakdown and many things will have to change drastically to avert it. It may not be inevitable, but the factors that make it probably are not only dominant, but thriving.