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Nigeria: Africa's failed health plan 'costs millions lives'
[SABCNews: 2007-01-21]

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Africa is hosting for the first time the World Social Forum, an annual meeting of global campaigners. Activists said that African governments' failure to deliver on a 2001 vow to spend 15% of budgets on health has cost the continent 40 million lives. An African Union (AU) summit in Nigeria in 2001 pledged to allocate at least 15% of national budgets to health care. But more than five years on, most of the AU's 53 member state. . .

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