Malaria adding further strain on African economies
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070315/wl_africa_afp/africahealthmalaria
African economies which are already groaning under the impact of AIDS are being further burdened by the preventable scourge of malaria, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz said on Thursday.
Speaking at the launch in South Africa of a new foundation created by local popular singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Wolfowitz said a million lives were being lost every year from malaria -- far higher than the numbers who die of AIDS.
"We're losing a million people a year to a disease that is preventable, and it's a terrible burden on people who don't die from it," said Wolfowitz, a former senior Bush administration official.
"It is an enormous drain on public health resources that are already strained by the burden of AIDS," he added.
Chaka Chaka said the foundation aims to improve the way donor funds are used in combating malaria, which kills a child every 30 seconds worldwide.
Curbing the preventable, yet often deadly disease, is hampered by aid not reaching those who need it, she said.
"We aim to improve transparency and accountability, get long term funding and work with ministries of health," said Chaka Chaka, adding urgent action was needed to combat the sheer scale of death from malaria every year.
Forty percent of the world's population are at risk of contracting malaria, which kills 4,500 people a day. Most of which are children under the age of five.
The launch of the Princess of Africa Foundation coincides with the release of a report by British lawmakers in London, which recognised that too much aid was being lost in the system.
"There is too much duplication of effort, too much money goes astray and countries most affected by malaria cannot cope through lack of human resources despite a ten-fold increase in funding over 10 years," read the report.
Chaka Chaka, also a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) goodwill ambassador for malaria, got involved in the struggle against it after a band member died from the disease, which she contracted during a tour to Botswana.
How can they not even mention DDT and how Rachel Carson single-handedly has killed more people than any other person in history??? I agree DDT should only be used for health reasons, not agricultural purposes, and the environmental impact of such a strategy would not be what has purportedly and mythically been stated. I mean come on, people used to use DDT in their soap and throw the powder on clothes and tents to keep bugs away. It may kill a few birds but I hardly think thats worth more than MILLIONS human lives.
Hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved EACH YEAR if DDT were used to combat malaria... and this has to be known by the WHO and the Western governents capable of providing the cheap yet effective chemical. So is this (keeping DDT out of the hands of people who need it) simply a form of population control?
African economies which are already groaning under the impact of AIDS are being further burdened by the preventable scourge of malaria, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz said on Thursday.
Speaking at the launch in South Africa of a new foundation created by local popular singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Wolfowitz said a million lives were being lost every year from malaria -- far higher than the numbers who die of AIDS.
"We're losing a million people a year to a disease that is preventable, and it's a terrible burden on people who don't die from it," said Wolfowitz, a former senior Bush administration official.
"It is an enormous drain on public health resources that are already strained by the burden of AIDS," he added.
Chaka Chaka said the foundation aims to improve the way donor funds are used in combating malaria, which kills a child every 30 seconds worldwide.
Curbing the preventable, yet often deadly disease, is hampered by aid not reaching those who need it, she said.
"We aim to improve transparency and accountability, get long term funding and work with ministries of health," said Chaka Chaka, adding urgent action was needed to combat the sheer scale of death from malaria every year.
Forty percent of the world's population are at risk of contracting malaria, which kills 4,500 people a day. Most of which are children under the age of five.
The launch of the Princess of Africa Foundation coincides with the release of a report by British lawmakers in London, which recognised that too much aid was being lost in the system.
"There is too much duplication of effort, too much money goes astray and countries most affected by malaria cannot cope through lack of human resources despite a ten-fold increase in funding over 10 years," read the report.
Chaka Chaka, also a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) goodwill ambassador for malaria, got involved in the struggle against it after a band member died from the disease, which she contracted during a tour to Botswana.
How can they not even mention DDT and how Rachel Carson single-handedly has killed more people than any other person in history??? I agree DDT should only be used for health reasons, not agricultural purposes, and the environmental impact of such a strategy would not be what has purportedly and mythically been stated. I mean come on, people used to use DDT in their soap and throw the powder on clothes and tents to keep bugs away. It may kill a few birds but I hardly think thats worth more than MILLIONS human lives.
Hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved EACH YEAR if DDT were used to combat malaria... and this has to be known by the WHO and the Western governents capable of providing the cheap yet effective chemical. So is this (keeping DDT out of the hands of people who need it) simply a form of population control?
Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
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