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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Disease outbreak kills hundreds
November 23, 2023 - 4:05PM
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Outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever in villages in three Indonesian provinces of Sumatra have claimed the lives of at least 230 people, news reports said today.
A malaria outbreak in 25 villages in the West Aceh district of Aceh province has killed as many as 208 people during the past five months and infected hundreds of others, the state-run Antara news agency reported.
Mas Marwan, chief of the Sungai Mas sub-district of West Aceh regency, about 1,700-kilometres north-west of Jakarta, has requested from the Aceh provincial government medical teams to help local officials contain the disease from claiming more lives.
He said the malaria outbreak claimed so many lives because the infected villages were in isolated areas, making it difficult for medical teams to reach them.
Indonesia, an archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands with a tropical climate subject to monsoons, provides an ideal habitat for the breeding of malaria and dengue-bearing mosquitoes, health officials said.
Officials at the Ministry of Health said recently that malaria mosquitoes that live in densely forested, swampy and beach areas, many of which are known to have built up resistance to certain insecticides, have made it more difficult to control the problem.
In 2003, a total of 2,286 people were infected by malaria in Indonesia, claiming the lives of 183 people.
Meanwhile, at least 22 people were killed from a dengue fever outbreak in two different provinces on Sumatra - North Sumatra and Riau in eastern Sumatra - during the past two weeks.
Dengue, another mosquito-borne viral disease, has killed at least 14 people in North Sumatra and claimed the lives of eight others in Riau province.
- DPA
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