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News
and Events during July 2002
29
July 2002:
Kenya's
scandalous malaria epidemic. When
Bureaucracy is as Lethal as Malaria. (The Nation)
23
July 2002:
Cipla
register generic Aids drug in South Africa.
While
the generic producer registers its drugs, the government
still refuses to budge on drug delivery. Are we still so
sure that patents are blocking access?
22
July 2002:
GlaxoSmithKline
begins tests & research on a new candidate malaria vaccine
in Mozambique. Read
More
and
Kenya
to produce BT to fight malaria.
19
July 2002:
Kenya's
Minister of Health "Stop
to laying blame for malaira war." While the ministry
is distributing bednets, perhaps they should follow Tanzania's
lead in reintroducing DDT spraying?
18
July 2002:
Malaria
Parasite presents double challenge - UPI
Kenya's
malaria epidemic
worsens while in Uganda, a Task
Force is formed to fight malaria.
16
July 2002:
Kenya
struggles with a "predictable and preventable"
outbreak of malaria. See
BBConline.
CDC
Study examines the Reemergence
of Epidemic Malaria in the Western Highlands of Kenya
In
other news ....
Dr. Amir Attaran speaks out on patents, poverty &
AIDS treatment. Health-e
news.
11
July 2002
Free
the Industry, Not the Drugs.
Richard Tren writes in the Wall Street Journal Europe.
SA's
necessary evil.
Sarah Duguid writes in the
Mail & Guardian
9
July 2002:
Richard
Tren writes in the Business Day:
UN Body got it wrong
on DDT
AFM
PRESS RELEASE:
Are Threats to Intellectual
Property Protection Becoming a Factor Discouraging HIV/AIDS
Research?
5
July 2002
DEET
Insect Repellents Judged Best Mosquito Guard. (Reuters)
WHO
Head shuns cellphones!
Wouldn't it be great if the WHO spent a bit more time worrying
about infectious diseases, diarrhoea and problems that are
actually killing people, rather than cellphones and deep
vein thrombosis!
Read
More (Steve Milloy, FoxNews)
3
July 2002
Andrew
Kenny writes on DDT in The Citizen
2
July 2002:
Deadly
Decisions on DDT - The Washington Times
1
July 2002:
Malaria
Vaccine for 2003? - All Africa.com
Experts
seek clues as malaria makes a comeback - Miami Herald.
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