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
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...
