Sky News: WHO Sorry Over Greece HIV Injection Claims
27/11/2013
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been forced to backtrack after wrongly claiming Greeks were intentionally infecting themselves with HIV to claim benefits.
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Slate: No, Greeks Aren΄t Intentionally Giving Themselves HIV to Get Government Aid
27/11/2013
No, people in Greece are not intentionally giving themselves HIV in order to receive government benefits, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, correcting a rather epic mistake in one of…
Guardian: WHO apologises for claiming half of Greek HIV infections are self-inflicted
27/11/2013
The World Health Organisation has been forced to retract claims that crisis-hit Greeks are intentionally injecting themselves with the HIV virus to collect state benefits almost two months after the…
SYRIZA: The generic opposition party
27/11/2013
Guided by an apparent desire to oppose the ruling coalition at all costs, Greece΄s main opposition party is attempting to block legislation that would bring down generic drug prices by…
WHO Fail: Claim that 50% of new Greek HIV infections self-inflicted for benefits totally false – UPDATE: WHO΄s response
26/11/2013
Many news outlets are repeating a claim made in a recent World Health Organisation report that 50% of all new HIV cases in Greece are self-inflicted by individuals looking to…
Public health care in Greece: Cutting to stand still
31/10/2013
Scenes of near chaos in the country’s biggest hospital. Doctors moving abroad by the thousands. Health minister Adonis Georgiadis still needs to make more savings and believes the answer lies…
Leading U.S. medical firm pays huge fine to settle bribery case in Greece and four other countries
25/10/2013
Medical device maker Stryker will pay $13.3 million to settle allegations it made illegal payments to governments in Greece, Mexico, Poland, Romania and Argentina.
Rehn pulls rank on Greek privatization fund, says schools, hospitals are not for sale
17/10/2013
The EU’s commissioner for economic and monetary affairs Olli Rehn told European Parliament that school and hospital buildings are not part of Greece’s privatization program.
No room for psychiatric hospitals in reformed Greece
11/10/2013
While clinical depression is soaring and now affecting 13.5 per cent of the Greek population, and with suicides doubling in the last three years, the country’s three public psychiatric hospitals…