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Ugandan environmentalists criticise govt over DDT -
By Gerald Businge
Kampala (AND) The National Association of professional Environmentalists in Uganda has criticized Parliament for allowing government to spray DDT to kill malaria causing mosquitoes.
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Lukyamuzi could be an enemy of Ugandans -
Fiona Kobusingye
KEN Lukyamuzi has taken his anti-DDT campaign further, this time round calling on his supporters to cut anybody who comes knocking at their doors with the insecticide meant to control mosquitoes. |
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Gambia: Gambia Registers Drop in Malaria, Others -
The Daily Observer (Banjul)
Dr Tamsir Mbowe, Secretary of State for Health and Social Welfare, yesterday said the malaria prevalence, alongside maternal mortality and morbidity have dropped in the country.
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Organic farmers oppose DDT use on malaria -
Patrick Jaramogi
Many developed countries continue to condemn millions of Africans to death based on inconclusive evidence that DDT is harmful to humans, this is spite of the fact that they themselves used DDT to eradicate the disease years ago. |
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Spending Warren's Money -
Roger Bate
With Warren Buffett's largesse added to his own, Bill Gates has about $60 billion to spend on health and development -- how should he spend it? |
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Africa Malaria Day and Nigeria’s new strategy -
The Tide Online
On the 25th of April 2000 an unprecedented number of Heads of State or representatives from 44 malaria afflicted countries in Africa came together in Abuja, Nigeria to attend the first-ever Summit on Malaria.
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Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria -
Medindia.com
An intermittent treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a common and cheap anti-malarial was found effective in treating malaria in Mozambican children by Rafael Pardo, director of the Fundación BBVA, and Pedro Alonso, coordinator of the Centre of International Health of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. |
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G8 urges lower tariffs to help poor get medicine -
TODAYonline.com
Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations have called for lower customs duties on drug imports to bring medicine and medical technology into easier reach for people in the world's poorest countries.
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Malaria & homeopathy -
Sense About Science
In July 2006, Sense About Science brought together leading experts in malaria and tropical diseases to respond to public misinformation about alternative ways to prevent malaria. |
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World Bank chief on four-day tour -
Daily News
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was scheduled to arrive in Tanzania late yesterday for a four-day visit at the invitation of President Jakaya Kikwete, the bank's local office said in a statement.
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Kenya enforces new malaria treatment policy -
AngolaPress
Health authorities in Kenya Thursday announced far-reaching changes in the national anti-malaria treatment policy in an effort to finding a lasting solution to the malaria menace that is so far claiming 15% of children under five annually.
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Govt to distribute 1.2m free mosquito nets -
Fredrick Odiero
The Kenyan government has announced that it will distribute 1.2 million long lasting mosquito nets to children under 5 years old in various parts of the country in an effort to fight malaria. |
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Gates in SA this week to check up on projects -
Business Day
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates arrives in SA this week to check up on projects supported by the philanthropic foundation he formed with his wife Melinda six years ago. |
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KENYA: Campaign against malaria to be launched -
IRIN
In an effort to save more Kenyan children from malaria, the country will on Saturday embark on the first phase of a massive campaign to increase the number of children sleeping under nets treated with insecticide.
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Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High -
Steven Milloy
Pennsylvania officials just announced success with their program to re-establish the state’s bald eagle population. But it’s a shame that such welcome news is being tainted by oft-repeated myths about the great bird’s near extinction.
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The US President's Malaria Initiative -
Lancet Staff
While the President's Malaria Initiative embodies positive reforms to USAID's malaria control programs in Africa, there remains much room for improvement. |
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Old and new drug mix could be 'radical' malaria cure -
Hepeng Jia
An old malaria drug that is cheap but increasingly ineffective could still play a role in the fight against the disease, according to research presented on 3 July at the 15th World Congress of Pharmacology in Beijing.
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How the west's health fads kill the poor -
Mark Weston
Although there is a cheap vaccine for measles, scare stories from the west are building up aversion to the life-saving MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) injection, just as scare stories led to millions of avoidable deaths from malaria.
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Angola to launch child vaccination, malaria drive -
Reuters
Angola is embarking on a massive campaign to protect more than 3.5 million children under the age of five from measles, polio and malaria, health officials in the southwestern African nation said on Friday.
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How long must malaria win? -
Barnabas Natamba Kahiira
Kobusingye, a co-ordinator of Congress for Racial Equality (CORE-Uganda) appeals to European leaders to embrace Uganda even if she starts DDT spraying and urges them to abandon their threat to ban fresh agricultural products from a Uganda trying to reverse a malaria epidemic that claims 320 lives daily. |
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Uganda may be barred again from global fund -
ANDnetwork .com
Just months after having its suspension from the Global Fund lifted, Uganda once again is on the brink of falling off the list of beneficiaries of the Geneva-based organisation that provides money to help fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. |
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Uganda to test malaria vaccine -
Charles Ariko
Uganda has been identified as one of the countries in Africa where malaria vaccine trials will be conducted.
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Museveni hails Bush on Malaria fight -
Darious Magara
President Yoweri Museveni has lauded President George Bush for funding the IRS intervention against mosquitoes to fight malaria in Uganda. |
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Malaria kills 320 Ugandans daily
Dr. Myers Lugemwa told a two-day symposium that malaria remains one of the most serious global health problems and a leading cause for childhood morbidity and mortality.
The symposium, under the theme ‘molecular biology and immunology in malaria vaccine development,’ is organised by Makerere university and the university of California, San francisco.
The Uganda Malaria Surveillance Programme and the African Malaria Network Trust are part of the organisers of the symposium that will be followed by a three-day workshop.
About 70 participants from about 20 African countries, the US and Europe are taking part in the symposium, focussing on malaria treatment, control and research.
Lugemwa said research had shown that malaria had killed half of the global population since the stone age.
A paper by Prof. Fred Wabwire and Dr. Adoke Yeka from the malaria surveillance project said resistance to the accessible and cheap drugs poses a threat to malaria control.
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