New research links International Monetary Fund loans with higher death rates from tuberculosis

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 03:21 in Health & Medicine

International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans were associated with a 16.6% rise in death rates from tuberculosis (TB) in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries between 1992 and 2002, finds a study in this week's PLoS Medicine.

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