# Global Corruption Report 2006: Corruption and health

URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/global-corruption-report-2006-corruption-and-health
Type: Publication or report
Published: 2006-02-01
Updated: 2020-04-07

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01 February 2006

The Global Corruption Report 2006 focuses on corruption and health. The book 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 and the problem of informal payments for health care; the impact of corruption at various points of the pharmaceutical chain; and anti-corruption challenges posed by the fight against HIV/AIDS.

## Errata

- Page 217, line 12 should read: "and pay journalists during the administrations of Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994–99) and Mireya Moscoso (1999–2004)."

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