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  • July 2008

    • Gates Urges Companies to Get Creative to Improve Lives

      Time  |  Jul 31, 08 6:04 PM CDT

      Gates Urges Companies to Get Creative to Improve Lives

      (Newser) - Bill Gates tweaks his corporate colleagues with an essay in Time urging businesses to look harder for ways to extend the benefits of capitalism to a greater portion of the global population. As a philanthropist, he says, he recognizes the need for nonprofit work, but as a businessman, he knows that only corporations have the resources to improve people’s lives on a grand scale—they just need incentives. More »

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      Bill Gates  • poverty  • philanthropy  • malaria  • capitalism  • humanitarian  • incentives

    • Clinton Boosts Efforts to Fight Malaria, GOP

      Associated Press  |  Jul 17, 08 5:00 PM CDT

      Clinton Boosts Efforts to Fight Malaria, GOP

      (Newser) - Bill Clinton's philanthropic foundation has struck a deal to keep a lid on the price of anti-malaria drugs, the AP reports. The former president today outlined a plan that would help limit wild fluctuation in the market for artemisinin, an extract key to treating malaria, which sickens 500 million a year. Six suppliers, and the UN, are on board, and Clinton hopes for more. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Bill Clinton  • malaria  • Clinton Foundation  • drug costs

    • Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 16, 08 10:14 PM CDT

      Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa

      (Newser) - A gene extremely common among Africans but almost unknown other ethnic groups may be rendering people of sub-Saharan Africa more susceptible to HIV and AIDS, the Times of London reports. The gene variant—common because it provides malaria protection—makes carriers 40% more likely to contract HIV and could be responsible for 11%, or 2.5 million, of the AIDS cases in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. More »

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      United Nations  • Africa  • AIDS  • HIV  • malaria  • University College London  • AIDS epidemic

  • June 2008

    • Cheap Malaria Drug Holds Promise for Millions

      Independent (UK)  |  Jun 4, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      Cheap Malaria Drug Holds Promise for Millions

      (Newser) - The lives of millions of children  may be saved by a new technique for producing a malaria drug at a 10th of the cost of current treatments, making it accessible the world's most impoverished people, reports the Independent .  The technique involves inserting a dozen synthetic genes into yeast cells, then fermenting them, with sugar, in giant vats, to produce the active ingredient, artemisinin. More »

    • $10 Mosquito Nets Move Young Donors to Save Lives

      New York Times  |  Jun 2, 08 9:11 AM CDT

      $10 Mosquito Nets Move Young Donors to Save Lives

      (Newser) - Mosquito nets, at $10 a pop, are a low-cost, effective way to prevent malaria—and they've become a cause célèbre for young people across the country, who've raised millions in donation drives, the New York Times reports. “You can say $10 saves a life,” says one young fundraiser. “That makes students feel they can help a lot. And every student has $10.” More »

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      Africa  • public health  • malaria  • mosquito

  • April 2008

    • End Malaria Deaths by 2010: UN

      BBC  |  Apr 25, 08 12:43 PM CDT

      End Malaria Deaths by 2010: UN

      (Newser) - The world must take action now to end malaria deaths—currently at 1 million per year—by 2010, UN chief Ban Ki Moon said today. "We have the resources and the know-how, but we have less than 1,000 days" to meet the goal, said Ban on the first World Malaria Day. The main push will be to provide bed nets and sprays to all of Africa, BBC reports. More »

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      United Nations  • Africa  • disease  • Ban Ki-Moon  • malaria  • mosquito

  • February 2008

    • Malaria: Africa's Success Story

      Washington Post  |  Feb 19, 08 9:45 AM CST

      Malaria: Africa's Success Story

      (Newser) - A new anti-malaria effort will provide a mosquito net to every Tanzanian child under age 5, reports the Washington Post. President Bush visited northern Tanzania yesterday to announce the program, spotlighting Africa's hugely successful fight against malaria, with committed African and Western governments collaborating on the well-funded strategy. In Zanzibar, the children's infection rate has dropped from 20% to 1% in just 3 years. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Africa  • public health  • malaria  • Tanzania  • Zanzibar

  • January 2008

    • 45K Dying Each Month in Congo

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 23, 08 2:34 PM CST

      45K Dying Each Month in Congo

      (Newser) - The civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo officially ended in 2002, but it's still killing 45,000 people a month, a new study concludes.  Malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition caused by 10 years of conflict—not to mention continuing armed skirmishes in the east—have left 5.4 million dead in the most lethal conflict since World War II, the Guardian reports. More »

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      war  • civil war  • malaria  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • infant mortality  • pneumonia  • diarrhea  • malnutrition

    • Fight Disease, Not Just AIDS

      New York Times  |  Jan 1, 08 1:05 PM CST

      Fight Disease, Not Just AIDS

      (Newser) - Global action to fight HIV/AIDS is imperative, but wealthy countries should reconsider committing most of their assistance to just one disease, Harvard expert Daniel Halperin writes in today's New York Times. Cheaply preventable illnesses like diarrhea claim many more lives in the poorest African countries than HIV yet receive scant attention, Halperin writes, calling attention to the "discrepancy between Western donors’ priorities and the real needs of Africans." More »

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      Africa  • public health  • HIV/AIDS  • malaria  • tuberculosis  • Harvard School of Public Health

  • December 2007
  • October 2007

    • Type O Blood Protects Malaria Victims

      BBC  |  Oct 30, 07 8:52 PM CDT

      Type O Blood Protects Malaria Victims

      (Newser) - Scientists may be closer to a malaria cure after learning that type O blood naturally shields victims from harsh forms of the disease. A study published today showed that African malaria victims with type O blood are two-thirds less likely to suffer fatal anemia or unrousable coma, the BBC reports. One scientist admitted that the finding surprised him. More »

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      Africa  • malaria  • blood  • Edinburgh

    • Chicago's Top 10 Contributions to Science

      Chicago Tribune  |  Oct 4, 07 4:20 PM CDT

      Chicago's Top 10 Contributions to Science

      (Newser) - It's not all about heavy winds and deep-dish pizza.  A bevy of scientists picked Chicago's 10 most important scientific achievements as a part of a week promoting science: World's first controlled nuclear reaction Invention of the cell phone Development of hormone treatments for prostate and breast cancer More »

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      list  • cell phones  • malaria  • scientific discoveries  • skyscraper

  • June 2007
  • March 2007

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