• Financial Crisis May Kill in Congo as Global Health Aid Stal
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      Financial Crisis May Kill in Congo as Global Health Aid Stalls January 18, 2012, 2:07 AM EST

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      • By Simeon Bennett

      Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Europe’s debt crisis has brought down governments, roiled markets and triggered austerity measures affecting millions. Now it may kill.

      In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 28,000 people with HIV who were meant to start life-saving treatment by 2014 may not because of shortfalls in the foreign aid that pays for the nation’s AIDS drugs, according to Doctors Without Borders. Some of those people will get sick and die, said Thierry Dethier, an HIV analyst with the charity that runs AIDS clinics in Congo.