Articles for
February 2005
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Scientists Clash Over DDT Use -
Evelyn Lirri & Jane Nafula
The arguing over whether or not to use DDT in Uganda continues ... while thousands die from malaria. Anti-DDT campaigners should realise that their unscientific and biased opposition to DDT costs lives and blights the futures of thousands of young Ugandans. |
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Fact and Comment -
Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes weighs in on DDT and pulls no punches. Great stuff. |
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Experts Defend DDT Use -
Evelyn Lirri & Asha Ntabadde
At last some sense on DDT use in Uganda. If the government had been allowed to start using DDT a year ago, when they wanted to, thousands of lives would have been saved. Instead the country has had to deal with absurd and unscientific opposition to DDT - from among others the European Union. |
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In Africa, a Plant's Twofold Promise -
Andrew England
Build a market and people will produce. The irony is that many of the aid agencies now so interested in artemisia, such as USAID, blocked the development of a market for so long. |
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WHO Warns of Malaria Drug Shortage -
Jason Beaubien
This National Public Radio audio story explores the World Health Organization's assertion that there will be a massive shortfall in a key malaria drug, artemisinin. |
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EU Warns on DDT -
New Vision
Guy Rijcken, the EU Charge d'Affaires has warned Uganda not to use DDT. His claims that DDT will find its way into the food chain, thereby threatening exports, is false and malicious and will no doubt lead to further death and disease in that country. Why doesn't he just admit that he is using the DDT issue as a trade barrier to protect the cosseted EU farmers? This disgraceful behaviour must stop. |
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Zimbabwe hunger claims 'US plot' -
BBC
As usual the Zimbabwean government blames someone else for the misery, hunger and ill health it is inflicting on its own people. As more and more people are going hungry, it will become increasingly difficult to prevent deaths from preventable diseases, such as malaria. |
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Members of Parliament Support the Use of DDT
The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
October 1, 2023
Posted to the web September 30, 2023
By Agness Nandutu
Parliament
Lawmakers have declared their support for the government to use DDT to fight against malaria. Government wants to reintroduce the banned chemical, Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), to deal with the rampant malaria.
The Minister of Health, Brig. Jim Muhwezi, said the government was conducting consultations to ensure that the use of DDT does not have any adverse effects on either the population or the environment.
Some MPs have been among the strongest critics of DDT use. However, after a tour to South Africa to study how they have successfully carried out indoor residual spraying in malaria control with the use of DDT, said they will support the use of the chemical in Uganda.
"When a plane crashes and kills 30 people it is breaking news on TVs and radio but malaria is responsible for seven Boeing crashes each day through out the year and that is not breaking news," Muhwezi told journalists yesterday during the weekly cabinet briefing at Nakasero.
AllAfrica
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