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Chicago Tribune - December 28, 2005
Myanmar has one of Asia's worst AIDS epidemics and suffers 60 percent of malaria deaths in Asia, UN officials say, but it receives little foreign aid.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which is financing worldwide efforts to combat the three diseases, cut off $87 million in funding for Myanmar this year because its military junta wasn't cooperating.
"The Global Fund was never given a chance to function," said Charles Petrie, the chief UN official in Myanmar. "Without exaggeration . . . people who survived the regime are going to die because we are not able to provide the humanitarian aid."
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