by Beth | Mar 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
More than 10 million youngsters under the age of five die each year from a variety of preventable causes, the World Health Organization says. More than 40% of the deaths occur in southern and western Africa, based on mortality rates from 2000 to 2003, with pneumonia,...
by Beth | Mar 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
AKAR, Senegal – As far as causes go, malaria may well be the least trendy. Luckily, when more than a dozen African musical superstars converged on this coastal capital to strut their stuff against the disease, Africa’s most persistent scourge, the...
by Beth | Mar 14, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The number of cases of the most serious type of malaria around the world has increased to an estimated 515 million, according to a study in the journal Nature, making the disease possibly more deadly than AIDS. The study, which counted nearly twice the number of cases...
by Beth | Mar 4, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says it has halted its funding of anti-malaria programs in Senegal because of how slowly the country was implementing projects. A Global Funds official says money for HIV/AIDS work in Senegal and Laos is also...
by Beth | Feb 23, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Production of a new, more effective anti-malaria drug that could save hundreds of thousands of lives is being delayed amid a financial disagreement. At the core of the dispute is Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis’ demand that the World Health Organization sign...
