by Beth | Apr 23, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Sunday is Africa Malaria Day which marks the fourth anniversary of the Roll Back Malaria Summit in Abuja. The pleges made in Abuja – where leaders set ambitious targets for 2005 – are not being fulfilled by many of the African countries, bilateral donors...
by Beth | Apr 16, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Sample letters to Letter to Donors, the World Bank, Pharmaceutical Companies and to African Leaders Elcidio died before his ninth birthday because he was given the wrong anti-malarial drugs. Thousands of African children like him die every *day* for the same reason,...
by Beth | Mar 5, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
African health campaigners have accused western countries of deliberately ignoring an effective weapon against malaria. They say the chemical DDT could help fight the disease, which kills about a million people each year – 90% of them in Africa. Sprayed annually...
by Beth | Jan 22, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Janu 22, 2004 – Malaria, a disease forgotten in wealthy countries, is advancing, killing a million people or more a year, at least 700,000 of them African children. … The lack of a global lobby against malaria has brought the world to the sad, absurd point...
by Beth | Jan 17, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
LONDON (AP) – The World Health Organization and other aid agencies are undermining the battle against malaria by funding cheaper and less-effective drugs, contributing to tens of thousands of deaths of children in Africa, researchers asserted. The scientists,...
