Spread Of Swine Flu Detracting From Real Issue, Says UK Charity

Millions of children will continue to die of preventable causes unless health and development ministers get their priorities straight next week in Geneva, says leading aid agency World Vision. Days before UK Government Ministers fly to the World Health Assembly, World Vision is urging them to support a vital resolution on primary health care, and place it at the centre of the development agenda.

World Vision CEO Justin Byworth has written to Health Secretary Alan Johnson, and to the Department for International Development, to stress that swine flu and the global recession “emphasise the need for national and global leadership to protect health, especially in developing countries where these threats may be less visible but are often more acute”. 

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