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February 2007:
Africa Fighting Malaria Updates and Events
| Africa Fighting Malaria
Launches New Website, Study Calls For Urgent
Development of New Insecticides and 50
organizations have signed and delivered a letter
to key appropriators in Congress calling for
increased funding for the President's Malaria
Initiative (PMI) - all this and more read the
Feb update
here
January 2007:
George Osborne pledges £500 million a year
to fight malaria | Today George
Osborne has pledged that a future Conservative
Government would spend £500 million per year to
fight malaria. Please find attached the press
release for your interest and for circulation.
The Coalition against Malaria UK were asked
to provide George Osborne’s adviser with a
statement on behalf of CAM-UK. Please read our
statement below:
"The Coalition against Malaria UK welcomes
the commitment to spend £500m a year to tackle
malaria until the Millennium Development Goals
on malaria have been achieved. This pledge
acknowledges the urgent need for sustainable and
predictable financing to reduce the burden of
malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and ensure that
commitments made in 2000 become a reality."
George Osborne's full press release can
be download
here
January 2007: Africa Fighting Malaria Updates
and Events
| The Gates Foundation grant
will match your donations dollar for dollar, net
for net! For every bed net you send to a child
in Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
will send one, too. That is twice the number of
bed nets, twice the impact, all from your
donation! -
double your donation!
The
announcement of the challenge grant was featured
today at a Nothing But Nets event hosted by the
National Basketball Association. Many of the
partners of the campaign, including the People
of the United Methodist Church, Sports
Illustrated, VH1, United Nations Foundation,
UNICEF, Mark J. Gordon Foundation and the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation joined the NBA in New
York City to share their commitments to the
campaign and raise awareness about malaria.
Check out www.NothingButNets.net for stories
about the event from supporters like Rick
Reilly, Katherine Commale and Sam Perkins!
January 2007: Africa Fighting Malaria Updates
and Events
| Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM)
seeks to raise awareness of the huge burden of
malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and promote
sensible policies for long-term solutions
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January 2007: MALARIA RESEARCH ON THE BBC
| This week on BBC World, the highly
rated Kill or Cure television series profiles
research that is identifying how best to get new
malaria drugs to African children living in
highly endemic areas. The program takes place in
Oyo State, Nigeria, where two implementation
research programs supported by the Special
Programme for Research and Training in Tropical
Diseases (TDR) are underway to identify best
practices for increasing access to artemisinin-based
combination therapy (ACTs) in rural areas using
home management and community-directed
techniques. Coordination between the local
researchers at the University of Ibadan, the WHO
country office, and the Federal Ministry of
Health is highlighted.
If you would like a copy of the program, please
email Brian.
Plans are also underway to have this program on
a new online site of all the Kill or Cure
programs, starting in January, as well as for
future broadcasts on other networks.
December 2006: Yvonne Chaka Chaka on malaria
| On Monday 18th December 2006 the
famous South African singer, UNICEF Ambassador
for malaria, and President of the Princess of
Africa Foundation, Yvonne Chaka Chaka delighted
a captivated All Party Parliamentary Malaria
Group meeting with her wonderful voice. Having
travelled directly from the White House Summit
on Malaria in Washington DC, Yvonne spoke of her
own experiences of the suffering caused by
malaria and of the urgent need to tackle this
silent killer.
To read more about the White House Summit on
Malaria please go to the link below: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/16/AR2006121600825.html
November
2006: Malaria-A Leading Killer Of Children In
Africa | The United Nations
Foundation (UN Foundation) announced today the
launch of Nothing But Nets - a grassroots
campaign asking individuals to donate $10 to
"send a net, save a life." Each $10
donation pays for an insecticide-treated bed
net, distributes it to a family in need in
Africa, and provides education on its proper use
to prevent malaria. Founding partners of the
campaign are NBA Cares, The People of the United
Methodist Church, and Sports Illustrated -
October
2006: Africa Fighting Malaria Updates and Events | Africa
Fighting Malaria (AFM) seeks to raise awareness
of the huge burden of malaria in sub-Saharan
Africa and promote sensible policies for
long-term solutions -
Autumn
2006: Article taken from Professional Pest
Controller Issue 45 | Use of DDT
backed by WHO -
October
2006: Kill Malaria Mosquitoes Now | Developing
countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America face
a terrible health and human rights crisis: 500
million of their people get malaria every year,
and over 1 million die. A principal reason is
that far too many “health” organizations
refuse to fund or even permit the use of
pesticides, especially DDT. Kill Malarial
Mosquitoes NOW! is a global campaign to change
these policies and save lives. Please read our
Declaration and endorse this bipartisan effort
by people of conscience from every color,
religion and political affiliation
September
2006: Infusions of albumin could save up to 80%
of children | More study is
needed before such treatment is recommended, but
children given the treatment had a much higher
survival rate, Dr. Kathryn Maitland of Imperial
College, London, and colleagues reported.
"The observation that treating very sick
children with severe malaria with albumin
infusion can reduce the mortality rate by over
80 percent represents a major breakthrough
towards improved treatment of this devastating
illness," Maitland said in a statement.
"However, administration of fluid to
children critically ill with severe malaria is
contrary to prevailing practice, and, therefore,
it is absolutely essential that we are certain
that the results are true before we advise on
any change in practice. Earlier on Friday the
World Health Organisation said it would
recommend the use of the pesticide DDT in homes
to try and kill the mosquitoes that carry
malaria. - Taken from MSN News Today
September
2006: Pop group Scissor Sisters play a free gig
in London's Trafalgar Square | "Scissor
Sisters have called all of their surviving
grandparents to gush with excitement,"
songwriter Babydaddy said in a statement. The
gig was held in support of the Global Fund,
which provides money to fight Aids, tuberculosis
and malaria.
July
2006: EU bars a malaria life-saver |
The biggest killer in Africa, bigger
than HIV/AIDS, is malaria. In Uganda alone it is
responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000
children a year -
July
2006: Drug screen reveals antimalarial agent |
TA widely-available antihistamine
called astemizole could help in the battle
against malaria, according to a survey of more
than 2 600 drugs in a pharmaceutical
‘library’ - taken from RSC Chemistry World
July
2006: Insect Detectives |
The powerful sense of smell that
insects possess is being put to use in
applications from detecting rotten tomatoes to
controlling one of the deadliest of diseases in
Africa. John Bonner finds out more - taken from
RSC Chemistry World
July
2006: Homeopathic practices 'risk lives |
Some homeopathic practices tell people
they need not take conventional anti-malaria
drugs in high-risk parts of the world, an
investigation by BBC2's Newsnight has revealed.
For more information see bbc news website -
click
July
2006: BASF launch 3-way approach to controlling
vector-borne diseases | To
download the BASF brochure just
click
here - this document requires an Adobe
reader which is freely available from http://www.adobe.com/
July
2006: Christiane Rehwagen interviews Arata Kochi |
"Send for Kochi" - WHO is
hoping that Arata Kochi, the new director of its
global malsria programme, will inject new life
into the scheme. As he approaches his first
anniversary in the job Christinane Rehwagen asks
him how things are progressing (taken from BMJ
Volume 333 15 July 2006- www.bmj.com)
July
2006: Roll Back Malaria Concert on BBC 2 |
Have a party, call your friends and
neighbours and spread the word about malaria! On
Thursday 13th July at 11.20pm BBC 2 will
be screening the Roll Back Malaria Concert
Movie. The movie captures the excitement of the
concert (details of which are below), and
explores the important issues behind the
concert. This could not only be an interesting
and enjoyable programme to watch, but a useful
tool for educating people about the impact
malaria has.
During the nights of 12th and 13th March 2005
the Senegalese superstar Youssou Ndour staged
the spectacular Africa Live Roll Back Malaria
Concert in the west African city of Dakar. The
concert featured more than 150 African musicians
performing African music to a crowd of more than
50,000 Africans - all gathered to promote the
urgent message of 'Roll Back Malaria'.
Africa Live - The Roll Back Malaria Concert
featured breathtaking performances by many of
Africa's finest musicians including Youssou
Ndour (Senegal) performing with the Grand
Orchestre du Caire (Egypt) and Le Super Etoile
de Dakar (Senegal), Baaba Maal (Senegal),
Orchestra Baobab (Senegal), Awadi (Senegal),
Oumou Sangare (Mali), Rokia Traore (Mali), Salif
Keita (Mali), Angelique Kidjo (Benin), Tinariwen
(Mali), Seun Kuti (Nigeria), Tony Allen
(Nigeria), Man Dibango (Cameroon), Tiken Jah
Fakoly (Ivory Coast) and Corneille (Rwanda).
June
2006: University wins grant for
anti-malaria research | British
university said on Wednesday it had a received a
$13.6 million (7.4 million pound) grant for
research into alleviating a global shortage of
treatments for malaria. The Centre for Novel
Agricultural Products, part of the University of
York, said the money would help fund a
fast-track breeding research programme for the
plant Artemisia annua -- the source of the
leading anti-malarial drug artemisinin. Malaria,
caused by the one-celled parasite carried by
mosquitoes called plasmodium, kills at least one
million people every year and makes 300 million
people seriously ill - taken from MSN News
June
2006: DDT helps cut malaria in
South Africa | Use of the
organochlorine insecticide, DDT, has resulted in
a huge fall in South African malaria cases, the
Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, said
earlier this month. There was a drop of
over 85% in the number of reported cases and
deaths between 2000, when DDT was reintroduced,
and 2005, according to local reports of official
data. The country's successful strategy
has convinced the WHO to revise its malaria
control policy, she says. DDT is permitted
for specific use by the Stockholm Conference on
Persistent Organic Pollutants and has been
reintroduced in much of Africa, including in
Tanzania last month (Agrow No 497, p 17). ©
2004 PJB Publications Ltd
May
2006: Frank Devlyn visits U.N. Foundation in
Washington | Patty Bushkin of
the U.N. Foundation spoke highly of the great
possibilities and good work of Malaria
Nets.
April
2006: Article on how to stop the mosquito's
biting | Gervan Lubbe's Malaria
Monitor could help save thousands of lives
April
2006: Mosquito net coverage of vulnerable groups
reaches 50% in Kenya | Nationwide
distribution of up to 3.5 million insecticide
treated nets (ITNs) per year has led to a rapid
increase in coverage of vulnerable groups in the
malaria endemic provinces of Kenya. By targeting
heavily subsidized ITNs to vulnerable groups
attending antenatal clinics (ANCs), as well as
promoting sales through the commercial sector,
coverage has reached 46% of children under five
and 50% of pregnant women in three key malaria
endemic provinces
June
2005: Fighting Malaria - Saving Lives in Africa |
On June 30, 2005,
President Bush challenged the world to reduce
the burden of malaria dramatically as a major
killer of children in sub-Saharan Africa, and
pledged to increase funding of malaria
prevention and treatment by more than $1.2
billion over five years. The goal of this effort
is reduce malaria deaths by 50 percent in each
of the target countries after three years of
full implementation.
March
2004: Bill Gates is on a
mission | Bill
Gates is on a mission - to rid the world of
infectious diseases. One of the biggest
challenges involved is the eradication of
malaria, which kills three million people every
year
September
2003: UNICEF, WHO, and Acumen Fund announce
introduction in Africa of new technology to
fight malaria | BAn
innovative Japanese product that has the
potential to save millions of people from
malaria every year is for the first time being
manufactured in Africa – the continent where
90 per cent of the world’s malaria deaths
occur
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