by Beth | May 17, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Handicapped by a lack of donations, the U.N.-backed Roll Back Malaria campaign will likely fall far short of its goal of halving the number of malaria deaths worldwide by 2010, Agence France-Presse reports today.http://www.unwire.org/News/328_426_23904.asp...
by Beth | May 11, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“There is another killer disease besides AIDS, but it receives far less attention in the wealthy nations of the North—malaria. “Malaria has been almost completely eliminated in the United States and other developed countries. It is often included among the...
by Beth | May 10, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
After years of hesitation, world health agencies are racing to acquire 100 million doses of a Chinese herbal drug that has proved strikingly effective against malaria, one of the leading killers of the poor.The drug, artemisinin (pronounced are-TEM-is-in-in), is a...
by Beth | May 8, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Web site of the Massive Effort Campaign (against Malaria) has just posted its most recent newslettter.http://www.massiveeffort.org/index.html As usual it is filled with information and ideas about how raise, consciousness, mobilize, prevent, cure, etc. malaria....
by Beth | May 2, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA every 30 seconds someone dies of malaria. This year the Center for Disease Control has launched a web site dedicated to this issue. http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/africa_malaria_day.htm
