by Beth | Jan 21, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization asked pharmaceutical companies on Thursday to end the marketing and sale of “single-drug” artemisinin malaria medicines, in order to prevent malaria parasites from developing resistance to...
by Beth | Dec 30, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
International donors are getting behind a project being developed by the World Bank and Roll Back Malaria aimed at making new, effective malaria drugs affordable worldwide in a year. By using a subsidy of at least $100 million provided by aid donors, officials hope to...
by Beth | Nov 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
As the rain comes to southern Africa this month, it will bring with it more malaria deaths. But in a glimmer of hope, Zambia, where malaria kills 30,000 people annually, is launching a campaign — aided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Fund...
by Beth | Nov 19, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – Scientists, health workers and politicians met Sunday in Cameroon to discuss new ways to battle malaria and increase awareness of the deadly disease, which kills thousands a day….”This is a turning point,” said the...
by Beth | Oct 31, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
LONDON (AP) – Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life lost to diseases, according to a report...
