Join NCAC

and fight
Austerity

We welcome new members from all walks of life, in joining NCAC in pursuance of Our Aims and in adherence to our Constitution.

Our next meeting Monday 3rd June 7.00pm you are welcome to join us, at the Vauxhall Centre

Johnson Place, Norwich,
Norfolk, NR2 2SA

Worse, those cuts have been decided "not by doctors and healthcare professionals, but by economists and financial managers. The plan was simply to get health spending down to 6% of GDP. Where did that number come from? It's less than the UK, less than Germany, way less than the US." The consequences have been dramatic. Cuts in HIV-prevention budgets have coincided with a 200% increase in the virus in Greece, driven by a sharp rise in intravenous drug use against the background of a youth unemployment rate now running at more than 50% and a spike in homelessness of around a quarter. The World Health Organisation, Stuckler says, recommends a supply of 200 clean needles a year for each intravenous drug user; groups that work with users in Athens estimate the current number available is about three.

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