03.05.2013 - 19:14 [ Bloomberg ]

Austerity Sparks Suicides When Recession Hits: Cutting Research

The rate of HIV infection has risen in crisis-stricken Greece by more than 200 percent since 2011, driven by increased drug use via injection amid a 50 percent youth unemployment rate and reductions in HIV prevention budgets, they say in “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills.” The Mediterranean nation also experienced its first malaria outbreak in decades following reductions to mosquito-spray programs.