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conflicts and political agenda and failed to effectively shore up health services in an
effective way”.
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This was not down to a lack of funding. In the Iraqi budget, as seen in the graph
attached, the increase in per capita spending in Iraqi budgets did not materialise in a
similar improvement to such important indicators as child mortality, which maintains the
same trend as during the embargo, or access to drinking water and sanitation.
17 Burkle F, Noji E (2004). Health and politics in the 2003 war with Iraq: lessons learned.
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October 2004, pp. 1371-4.