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 End Malaria Deaths by 2010: UN 

Providing Africa with nets, spray could save 1M lives a year

Apr 25, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Malaria: Africa's Success Story

Well-funded prevention effort brings down infection rates

Feb 19, 08 9:45 AM CST
(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,... More »

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

45K Dying Each Month in Congo

Civil war's over, but disease, malnutrition keep killing

Jan 23, 08 2:34 PM CST
(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.... More »

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

OPINION

Fight Disease, Not Just AIDS

Public health expert urges perspective in global efforts

Jan 1, 08 1:05 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Gates Charity Creates New African Woes

AIDS dollars distort fragile health systems, undermining basic care

Dec 16, 07 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $8.5 billion to global health causes and is slowly defeating AIDS in Africa, but it’s creating unexpected new problems for the continent, the LA Times reports. By pouring money into the treatment of AIDS, TB and malaria, it has... More »

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health care • Africa • Bill Gates • World Bank • malaria • vaccine • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Rwanda • tuberculosis • Lesotho • Botswana • The Global Fund • GAVI

Humans Evolving
at Warp Speed

New research contradicts theory that easier life slowed development

Dec 11, 07 3:59 AM CST
(Newser) - The pace of human evolution switched to the fast track when people began forming agrarian societies 10,000 years ago, researchers have discovered. Scientists had theorized that evolution would slow as challenges to survival waned, but the opposite appears to be the case with changes occurring surprisingly quickly, the Los ... More »

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evolution • milk • disease • malaria • genetic mutation • genes • population • human evolution

Darfur's Displaced
Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

Sudan's 2.5M refugees struggle to survive

Dec 8, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - "It is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," a resident of Abu Chok, a refugee camp in Darfur currently home to 54,000, tells the Guardian. Residents endure endemic malnutrition, malaria, and typhoid in hopes of security—the camp is 4 miles... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • malaria • refugee camp • refugee • Khartoum • Janjaweed • malnutrition

Type O Blood Protects
Malaria Victims

Drugs based on finding could spark cure, save
2 million annually

Oct 30, 07 8:52 PM CDT
(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.... More »

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Africa • malaria • blood • Edinburgh

Chicago's Top 10 Contributions
to Science

Forget the ferris wheel: first controlled nuclear reaction tops list

Oct 4, 07 4:20 PM CDT
(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:
  1. World's first controlled nuclear reaction
  2. Invention of the cell phone
  3. Development of hormone treatments for prostate and breast cancer
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cell phones • malaria • list • skyscraper • Chicago Science in the City • scientific discoveries • top quark

G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge

World leaders renew $60B pledge to fight disease in Africa

Jun 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Global leaders renewed their vow to spend $60 billion to help fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa today as the G8 summit wrapped up. But they set no deadlines for delivering the relief, leading critics to question the pledge. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation,... More »

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Iran • Russia • Africa • AIDS • greenhouse gases • global warming • France • malaria • Tuberculosis • Kosovo • G8 summit • Group of Eight • Bono • U2 • George W. Bush • carbon emissions

China to Test Controversial Malaria Treatment

Researchers aim to eradicate disease on African island

Jun 6, 07 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese researcher will test a radical new strategy designed to wipe out malaria on a small African island, the International Herald Tribune reports. Mass treatment with a highly effective antimalarial drug would virtually clear the parasite from patients' blood, but critics fear the plan could backfire, causing drug resistance... More »

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China • Africa • health • drugs • malaria • public health • artemisinin • treatment • Indian Ocean • Moheli • Comoros

(Newser) - Genetically modified mosquitoes that cannot pass on malaria may help reduce the spread of the disease that now causes a million deaths a year, mostly children. A new study shows that the lab-designed bugs could out-breed their natural competition, eventually driving them out altogether and eliminating the route through which... More »

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evolution • parasites • health • disease • malaria • tropical diseases • genetic modification • research • mosquito

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