Articles for
November 2005
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A Model Fight Against Malaria -
New York Times Editorial
The New York Times correctly concludes that Zambia's malaria control program - which relies on ITNs, indoor spraying with insecticides (including DDT) and effective ACT medicines - will show the world how cost effective malaria control can be. |
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DDT Hysteria Has Killed Millions of People -
Harold M. Koenig, M.D.
Harodl M Koenig and others support the recent Wall Street Journal's recent editorial that calls for US funding of DDT spraying against malaria. |
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Rolling back malaria -
Matthew Burbidge
Matthew Burbidge writes about malaria in Mozambique and the success of IRS programs. Donors need to pay attention to the successful malaria control programs in this poor and undeveloped country - they are a good model for other malarial areas. |
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New Results Show the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Candidate -
Fourteen hundred forty-two children received a three-dose regimen of the first malaria vaccine in 2003. 18 months later the vaccine has significantly reduced clinical malaria episodes by 35 percent and severe malaria episodes by 49 percent. |
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Malaria vaccine trial brings hope -
Mail & Guardian
Children in Mozambique are still showing signs of resistance to the malaria parasite after being vaccinated more than 18 months ago. |
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DDT Saves Lives -
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal runs an excellent and hard hitting editorial on the need for DDT to combat malaria. With regard to USAID's malaria control, program, they correctly conclude that " it's time for Congress to exercise some adult supervision."
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WHO to push DDT use in new malaria fight -
Tamar Kahn
Roll Back Malaria seem to be endorsing DDT for malaria control, which seems like a step in the right direction. If you read their new strategic plan, their endorsement of DDT is very qualified. In any event, it remains to be seen whether the major donors, like USAID, will actually procure DDT. |
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Malaria kills 400 Ugandans daily -
Isaac Kalembe
There is still no scientific proof to prove that DDT is harmful to man, animals or the environment....on the contrary many small villages in Uganda are benefiting from the use of the insecticide to control malaria |
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GSK malaria vaccine boosted by Gates grant -
Datamonitor Newswire
A $107.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is set to enable the Malaria Vaccine Initiative to extend its partnership with GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals to develop the company's malaria vaccine for children in Africa. |
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Health Minister launches new malaria drug campaign -
Ghana News Today
The Health Minister of Ghana, Major Courage Quashigah, recently launched the national campaign for the policy on the new anti-malaria drug, Artesunate-Amodiaquine, with a call on Ghanaians to ensure a reduction in the incidence of malaria. |
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Climate change linked to rise in malaria, asthma -
Timothy Gardner
A new report claims that climate change may promote the spread of deadly diseases like malaria and asthma in both rich and poor countries by increasing the range of parasitic insects and whipping up dust from storms.
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Gates grants US$250m to help NGOs fight malaria -
China Daily
The Gates Foundation has pledged further money in the fight against malaria, so far the money has made significant in-roads in developing a vaccine. But in the interim why not use some of the money to fund the most effective control measure currently available - IRS using DDT? |
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Poor countries to miss 2015 health goals - WHO
22 Aug 2023 09:30:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Most poor countries will miss global targets to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and reverse the toll of AIDS and other diseases by 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday.
None of the poorest regions of the developing world is on track to meet the target of reducing by two-thirds the rate of child mortality, now around 11 million deaths each year, in the next decade, according to the United Nations agency.
HIV/AIDS, which kills three million people worldwide a year, is growing gradually in major parts of Asia, according to the WHO report "Health and the Millennium Development Goals".
Health is at the heart of the U.N. Millennium Declaration, adopted by 189 heads of state in September 2000, which set out a roadmap of eight goals to be reached by 2015. Using 1990 data as baselines, they aim to reduce poverty and hunger, tackle gaps in health services, education and boost access to clean water.
"The evidence so far suggests that while there has been some progress, too many countries -- particularly the poorest -- are falling behind in health," WHO director-general Lee Jong-wook said in a statement.
"This is likely to affect other areas, including education, gender equality and poverty reduction," he said.
Millennium issues will be high on the agenda at the September summit meeting for heads of state in New York.
On the positive side, more poor women delivering babies now have a skilled medical person helping them. The use of insecticide-treated bednets against mosquito-borne malaria, which kills at least one million people a year, has also risen.
But more than 500,000 women still die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, and maternal death rates are 1,000 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in high-income countries, according to the report. The goal is to reduce the maternal mortality rate by three-quarters by 2015 compared to 1990.
Another 200 million women lack safe and effective contraceptive services, the report said.
"Overall, the data presented here are not encouraging. They suggest that if trends observed during the 1990s continue, the majority of poor countries will not meet the health Millennium Development Goals," the report said.
In 14 African countries, levels of under-five mortality are higher than in 1990, according to the report.
"If worldwide trends continue through 2015, the reduction in mortality among children under-five will be about one quarter, far from the target of a two-thirds reduction," it added.
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