The Global corruption report 2006

The 2006 Global corruption report focuses on corruption and health. It includes expert reports on: the risks of corruption in different health care systems; the scale of the problem: from high-level corruption in Costa Rica to counterfeit medicines in Nigeria, to health care fraud in the United States; the costs of corruption in hospital administration (like the problems caused by the fraud in the procurement of medical material etc...) and the problem of informal payments for health care; the impact of corruption at various points of the pharmaceutical chain; anti-corruption challenges posed by the fight against HIV/AIDS. It also includes: a foreword by Mary Robinson; detailed assessments of the state of corruption in 45 countries; recommendations for cleaning up the health sector; examples of successes in preventing health-related bribery, fraud and corruption; the latest corruption-related research, including studies on the links between corruption and other global issues, such as pollution, gender and foreign investment.