Articles for
February 2006
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Wasteful spending sickening? -
JAMES S. TYREE
Oklahoma’s junior senator cited the fight against malaria as an example of wasteful spending. Coburn said USAID was given $104 million in a recent year for a program to fight malaria, but only $4 million went to actual treatment.
But this year, about $100 million of the program’s $120 million will pay for medical treatment, DDT pesticides to malaria-carrying insects and other means to actually fight the disease.
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Worse than a hypocrite -
JAY AMBROSE
A major tragedy _ this one should make us all shudder _ has been the way in which extreme environmental groups have been able to limit the use of DDT as one of the most powerful weapons for fighting malaria in Africa |
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Malaria vaccine 'close' -
Roberta Mancuso
Australian scientists believe a vaccine for malaria could be available within five years as they prepare to take an "unconventional approach" to human trials.
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Plans to reduce malaria deaths in Zambia by 75 percent -
The Government, international donors and the nongovernmental organisations (NGO) have affiliated in hopes of dramatically bringing down the number of deaths caused by Malaria in Zambia. This is all part of a new initiative which hopes to see numbers drop with in three years.
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What Are the Priorities in Malaria Research? -
PLoS Medicine Editorial
PLoS Medicine reflects on the recent MIM Conference and assesses the priorities in malaria research. We are encouraged to see that residual spraying made it onto the list, for too long it has been shunned. |
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Malaria Infection Linked to Rampant Poverty -
Joseph Kamugisha
Which way does causation run, from malaria to poverty or poverty to malaria? The government can do something simple like spraying small amounts of DDT on the inside walls of dwellings to prevent large scale malaria outbreaks and increase the productive capacity of the workforce. |
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Scientists Able to Predict Malaria Epidemics Months in Advance -
Jessica Berman
Scientists say they have developed a computer model that can tell them whether a malaria season will be mild or severe five months before it occurs. Experts say the information provided by the model gives public health officials in countries with limited resources time to prepare for a severe malaria outbreak.
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Plans to reduce malaria deaths in Zambia by 75 percent
Zambia's, Roll Back Malaria campaign will now gain the support of government, international donors and the nongovernmental organisations, (NGO) in their fight against Malaria.
The aim is to reduce malaria deaths by 75 percent within the following three years in order the break the deadly circle that claims so many people’s lives.
The initiative, Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA), will act as an example for other countries in the region to refer to or indeed to follow.
International donors include the World Bank, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Malama Muleba, executive director of the Zambia Malaria Foundation, an umbrella body for NGOs that are helping the government implement control efforts, said that they are trying to remedy the fact that ‘Malaria has been over looked.’
Malaria has claimed the lives of 50,000 people year, that’s nearly 50 percent of the deaths in Zambia, are caused by Malaria. It is known as the country’s most deadly disease.
As the rainy season fades away in the South African country; hospital beds around the country will increasingly fill with patients suffering from malaria.
In the last 30 years, malaria incidence rates have tripled while its economy has deteriorated.
Most families are severely stricken by this deadly disease, in fact there is 73 percent are living under the poverty line.
Malaria makes up approximately 40 percent of public health outgoings. The health system is already plagued by HIV/AIDS and does not have enough health workers to deal with these severe diseases.
The government's ability to implement measures to control the spread of the diseases has been made extremely difficultly because of the results of malaria.
Zambia was chosen as the country to access malaria control due to its commitment to reducing malaria deaths.
Paul Libiszowski, a project-implementation specialist with PATH, the NGO charged with managing the Gates Foundation's $35 million contribution to MACEPA said:
“What we've got going here is a national programme donors are buying into and contributing to rather than vertical projects.”
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