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	Africa Fighting Malaria
		Africa Fighting Malaria is an NGO which seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control.
		AFM agrees with The Economist that the GFATM "...
		Africa Fighting Malaria report on the destruction of the Zimbabwean healthcare sector and the probable impacts on the entire region.
	www.fightingmalaria.org (1759 words)

	Malaria and DDT - SourceWatch
		The use of DDT for controlling malaria is highly controversial: on the one hand, it has historically been effective at reducing mosquitos; on the other hand, it introduces a toxic agent into the food chain (harming wildlife in particular), and its overuse leads to DDT-resistant mosquitos.
		Shortly afterwards, Africa Fighting Malaria, a think-tank specifically aimed at lobbying against the WWF position, was set up by Richard Tren and Roger Bate.
		Africa Fighting Malaria is supported by two large mining corporations, Anglo American and BHP Billiton.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Malaria_and_DDT (956 words)

	Malaria: Africa's ''Silent Tsunami''
		Moreover, malaria epidemics are on the rise across the continent, and the disease has reemerged in countries where it was once eradicated.
		Africa's malaria-afflicted nations also need more-adequate program infrastructure and human resources to build their capacity to sustain the fight against the disease, he explained.
		To fight the upsurge of malaria cases caused by complex emergencies--situations in which war, civil strife, food shortages, and displacement affect large groups of people--RBM is working to improve the forecasting, prevention of, and response to epidemics by mapping areas at risk and helping countries to improve their capacity to respond quickly and effectively.
	www.worldandi.com /subscribers/feature_detail.asp?num=24583 (3523 words)

	Africa Fighting Malaria - SourceWatch
		Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) is an NGO based in South Africa which states it "seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control."
		AFM promotes the pesticide DDT as one of the most effective means of fighting malaria.
		Critics say AFN does not actually fight malaria, but is merely a pressure group that lobbies for increased use of DDT.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Africa_Fighting_Malaria (501 words)

	malaria in africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Save Children From Malaria Campaign andamp; Africa Fighting Malaria Africa Fighting Malaria is a not-for-profit health advocacy group based in South Africa and in the United...
		Office of the Press Secretary June 30, 2005 Fighting Malaria in Africa Â“The toll of malaria is even more tragic because the disease itself is highly treatable and preventable.
		The Economic Costs of Malaria in South Africa Malaria Control and the DDT Issue Richard Tren Executive Summary Malaria is one of the world's most serious tropical diseases and imposes very significant...
	www.hauzi.at /malariainafrica-89465.html (267 words)

	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		Sub-Saharan Africa in particular bears the brunt of the malaria death toll of 1-2 million people a year, 90% of whom are pregnant women or children under the age of 5.
		South Africa depends upon a combination of low-level, controlled indoor insecticide use and prompt treatment of malaria cases to keep malaria incidence low (bed nets and reducing mosquito breeding sources are also employed in a limited way).
		Malaria cases in the U.S. have primarily been imported in recent decades, but last year, an outbreak in Florida could not be traced to any traveler.
	wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/108/bat091404.htm (3159 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - USAID's Troubling Malaria Efforts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Allegations have been made by senior malaria control officers at a recent Southern Africa Malaria Control Conference in Botswana that USAID is not only ignoring what makes for good malaria control, but that it is actually trying to subvert the sovereign rights of a nation to determine its own malaria control policy.
		Malaria is a highly complex disease and health officials must take into account parasites, mosquitoes, human populations, the natural and social environment and climate.
		The chance that the malaria parasite will be resistant to both drugs is very low which makes these new drugs crucial to treating patients now and to controlling the development of drug resistance in the future.
	www.techcentralstation.com /081304F.html (894 words)

	Push to fund DDT in fight against malaria in Africa \| csmonitor.com
		Now, even as wealthy nations approve aid for Africa to fight malaria, critics say that by not explicitly authorizing the use of DDT, Western environmental standards are being applied to the developing world, where long-term, often unproven, risks take precedence over immediate needs - at a cost of thousands of lives.
		Malaria is the single biggest cause of death among children worldwide, and the United Nations estimates that at least 1 million people die of the disease each year, 90 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
		Today, South Africa is one of only 22 countries around the world still using DDT for malaria control and only one of eight African countries that have officially requested permission from the United Nations to use the chemical for mosquito control.
	www.christiansciencemonitor.com /2003/0529/p07s01-woaf.htm (1187 words)

	Private Sector's Role Vital For Fighting Malaria In Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They told the ongoing national conference "on roll back malaria in Ethiopia," that the central importance of checking the spread of malaria in Africa should be given to local communities.
		The multi-sectoral team is part of the global "roll back malaria initiative." It promotes the global concept and strategy by forging partnership with national and local bodies.
		He, therefore, noted that "global concern and appreciation" of the urgency of effective partnership to respond to malaria were improving.
	www.chora.virtualave.net /malaria-private-sector.htm (251 words)

	SOUTHERN AFRICA: With the Rains, Comes Malaria
		In particular, the heads of state and government undertook to ensure that at least 60 percent of Africans at risk from malaria, especially young children and pregnant women, benefited from the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and other measures to combat and control the disease.
		In Southern Africa, the fight against malaria is focusing on a combination of interventions such as the use of insecticides sprays, and treated nets.
		Regional and international efforts notwithstanding, the World Malaria Report of 2003 notes that the financial burden of malaria prevention and treatment is still borne by individual households.
	www.aegis.com /news/ips/2004/IP041112.html (1104 words)

	Fighting Malaria in Africa
		The goal is to reduce malaria deaths by 50 percent in targeted African countries.
		This commitment to expand malaria prevention and treatment programs in Africa is in addition to the $200 million the U.S. spends today on malaria prevention, treatment, and research worldwide.
		While malaria is both preventable and treatable if addressed properly and quickly, this disease is one of the greatest threats to human health and economic welfare on earth.
	www.state.gov /p/af/rls/fs/48877.htm (756 words)

	DEET would make comeback if mosquito plagued WHO headquarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malaria, spread by mosquito bites, continues to be a problem in many locations of the world.
		In 1996, South Africa removed DDT from its malaria control program and the result was one of the worst malaria epidemics in the country’s history when hundreds of people lost their lives.
		The epidemic was subsequently controlled when DDT was reintroduced in 2000 (Africa Fighting Malaria).
	www.canadafreepress.com /2004/cover122704.htm (760 words)

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		Compiled by American Enterprise Institute’s Dr Roger Bate and AFM’s Richard Tren, the report focuses on the chronic lack of healthcare resources, the widespread malnutrition and the alarming increase in infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.
		Malaria and TB were both well under control prior to the economic and social collapse, but are now increasing dramatically.
		AFM conducts research into the political economy of disease and disease control and more generally on economic and development policy.
	www.zimbabwesituation.com /pressrelease.doc (816 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Johannesburg-based group Africa Fighting Malaria says the country’s serious health problems are spilling across its borders as Zimbabweans flee political violence, economic turmoil and poverty.
		With HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis now out of control in Zimbabwe, refugees bring with them these rampant diseases from their home country, said the report, entitled “Despotism and Disease: A report into the health situation of Zimbabwe and its probable impact on the region’s health”.
		Malaria, which had been a minor health problem for decades, has exploded in recent years because of the collapse of health services.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/ar/ar_ze_014_3_eng.txt (941 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - WHO's Bad at Fighting Malaria: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malaria is on the rise in most of sub-Saharan Africa, despite an international campaign to control its spread.
		According to Roger Bate of Africa Fighting Malaria "the main cause is the failure of the very campaign organized to combat the disease." Worse, WHO seeks to explain away this failure on other factors, such as climate change, that have played little, if any, role in malaria's spread.
		Bate concludes "Malaria can be combated effectively; all it takes is the will to do so." Alas, Bate demonstrates, it appears WHO and other international agencies lack that will.
	volokh.com /posts/1082927918.shtml (300 words)

	Malaria, Risks in Africa, DDT Issues, Mosquito Populations, Prevention
		The mosquito-born malaria parasite kills up to 2 million people annually, and in many parts of the world it is a major killer of children under the age of 5.
		MIMCom Malaria Research Resources - Boasting the first electronic malaria research network in the world - a consortium of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and related organizations in Africa, the U.S., the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Europe - and providing access for scientists working in Africa.
		Africa Fighting Malaria - This site is very pro DDT being put back into use to curb the mosquito population.
	www.chiff.com /health/disease/malaria.htm (250 words)

	Fighting Malaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malaria is transmitted to humans when a female mosquito bites a malaria-infected person, and then bites – and infects – a noninfected person.
		For years, malaria victims were treated with effective and relatively inexpensive drugs such as chloroquine.
		By the 1950s, malaria had been eradicated in many countries and was seemingly on the brink of extinction.
	www.ontherun.no /corporate/Campaign/Campaign_contribution_malaria.asp (787 words)

	sBMJ \| Deaths from malaria in Africa
		Malaria is stopping entire countries from growing economically, cementing a future of poverty and desperation that will span generations.
		Childhood malaria deaths could be reduced by home treatment, in which parents are given prepackaged malaria pills with clear instructions on dosing.
		Epidemic malaria accounts for 10% of the continent's malaria burden, and it has a high case fatality rate across all ages.
	www.studentbmj.com /issues/03/12/editorials/438.php (1247 words)

	Zimbabwe’s calvary The Zimbabwean - openDemocracy
		Malaria is a virulent killer in areas where there is no access to prophylactics or remedies.
		I do not anticipate that long-term, sustainable malaria control will be possible while he remains in power”, says Richard Tren, director of Africa Fighting Malaria.
		“It is a tragedy of the highest order that South Africa’s so-called quiet diplomacy ostensibly seeks to help Zimbabwe, yet Zimbabweans are dying in that country because of its inaction in tackling the human rights disaster in Zimbabwe”, the forum’s executive director, Gabriel Shumba, told the committee.
	www.opendemocracy.net /democracy-africa_democracy/calvary_2797.jsp (1809 words)

	Science Safari: Fighting Malaria
		Only 76 new cases of locally acquired malaria in the U.S. were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1957 through 1994; but outside the U.S. malaria is still a killer - especially in Africa, where 90 percent of cases occur.
		(The malaria parasite is transmitted at this stage.) When the victim's blood has thinned to a feeding consistency, the mosquito plunges in a straw-like digestive tube and begins to feed on the blood.
		Map the areas in the world where malaria, dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are still a problem.
	www.pbs.org /safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_702/4572_malaria.html (999 words)

	Science Show - 14/9/2002: Silent Spring
		We’ve got high cases of malaria deaths, especially in the Chittagong Hill tracks, you’ve got another kind of malaria disease that effects your cerebral system and the people die in two or three days time.
		And even inside the cities it is very difficult to diagnose malaria at the very beginning: people wait for two or three days, then they are ill and taken with fever.
		So, South Africa moved back onto DDT in the year 2000, and they’ve had an 80% reduction in the number of malaria cases.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s642033.htm (5897 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Where DDT Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yet malaria cases and deaths have increased since the start of the RBM programme.
		It is also one of the least healthy countries: preventable and curable diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea claim tens of thousands of lives.
		Last year the WHO released its Africa Malaria Report, which it promoted as a comprehensive assessment of malaria and malaria control on the continent.
	www.techcentralstation.be /042604G.html (767 words)

	Toxic DDT the answer to Africa's war on malaria? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While her call is sure to outrage the environmentalist lobby in the west for whom the highly toxic chemical is the poison celebre of the century, in the poverty stricken third world the call is likely to be given very careful consideration.
		Unfortunately, however, in sub-Saharan Africa where almost a million people die annually from Malaria, the phrase "nobody is safe" attaches itself more readily to the malaria-carrying mosquito than to the ecology of the planet.
		According to Richard Tren, the Director of Africa Fighting Malaria, "the real problem African countries face is donor agencies who are not only opposed to DDT use but especially reluctant to fund 'indoor residual spraying'".
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/897835/posts (1767 words)

	Malaria: Genetic Codes Cracked, New Eradication Methods Predicted - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New ways of tackling malaria are likely to be developed now that the complete genetic codes of both the human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) and the most common mosquito species in Africa, Anopheles gambiae, have been deciphered.
		Others like the South African NGO Africa Fighting Malaria, have been lobbying to reintroduce DDT spraying, which they claim is still the most efficient and cost-effective eradication measure.
		Malaria is thought to afflict over 500 million people worldwide and cause nearly three million deaths each year, more than 90% of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.irc.nl /page/2335 (258 words)

	fighting africa sports info
		A charity battling against diseases in Africa will be helped by our appeal, which has raised Â£221721 so far.
		Dr Shein, Afro-Asian conference and fighting Africaâs poverty 2005-05-04 08:56:33 By Nimi Mweta.
		According to the World Health Organization, malaria is on the rise again, taking a life every thirty seconds of every minute of every day around the world.
	www.sportsnoodle.com /cgi-bin/bs/search.cgi?keywords=fighting+africa (179 words)

	Fighting Malaria - Novartis.com
		Malaria is a common and serious tropical disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum, a single-celled organism or protozoan parasitic infection transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes.
		Malaria is one of the most serious challenges to modern healthcare:
		Together with the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), Novartis is working to develop a new pediatric formulation of Coartem to improve treatment and compliance of young children suffering from malaria.
	www.novartis.com /corporate_citizenship/en/01_2005_fighting_malaria.shtml (330 words)

	IPN: Africa Needs DDT
		The use of the insecticide in malaria control in South Africa reduced the number of cases by an estimated 80 percent in one year and continues to save lives every day.
		DDT used in northern Zambia reduced malaria cases in the area by about 50 percent in one year.
		The writer is director of Africa Fighting Malaria.
	www.policynetwork.net /main/article.php?article_id=452 (204 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing
		CAPE TOWN — The Africa Fighting Malaria lobby group has welcomed last week’s pledge by US President George Bush to increase funding for malaria control, but said the money would not go far unless the leading US government development agency USAID was overhauled.
		Africa Fighting Malaria cited the example of the consultancy Management Sciences for Health, which spent 52% to 70% of its 2003 programme budget on compensation and travel.
		USAID is a key player in the World Health Organisation’s Roll Back Malaria Programme, and has spent $400m on programmes in the past seven years.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/national.aspx?ID=BD4A63873 (422 words)

	The Social Change Project - Africa in Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In recent months, the tragic stories of war, massacres, and disease in Africa have swept headlines across the globe.
		With over 25 million Africans likely infected with the AIDS virus, and 2.5 million dying annually from Malaria, it is exceeding difficult to achieve any kind of stability.
		Since the end of colonialism, Africa’s economic development has generally remained stagnant, and has suffered under both domestic and foreign trade barriers.
	www.mercatus.org /socialchange/article.php/603.html (379 words)

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