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Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder due to a single genetic mutation. It remains in populations because the mutation has a flip side—it helps to protect against malaria. Now another mutation has been shown to afford similar protection. Full Article at Scientific American
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As the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference approaches its last days, we can anticipate an increase of urgency, finger-pointing and awareness-raising. What is the motivation of this behaviour, and why is the volume of climate campaigning increasing? Full Article at New Europe News
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Actor Russell Brand arrives at The White Party benefiting Malaria No More in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 4, 2009. View Photo »
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Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, contributes more than a quarter of the one million malaria deaths in Africa, according to official statistics
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LONDON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new solution developed by IBM ( IBM), Novartis and Vodafone with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is helping to save lives using everyday technology to improve the availability of anti-malarial drugs in... Full Article at PR Newswire
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New technological system to help improve availability of anti-malarial drugs in Tanzania
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A new solution developed by IBM ( IBM), Novartis and Vodafone with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is helping to save lives using everyday technology to improve the availability of anti-malarial drugs in remote areas of Tanzania. Full Article at News-Medical.net
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Surat: A five-year-old girl living at a women protection home (Nari Sanrakshan Gruh) died from malaria at the new civil hospital on Sunday. Six other girls were also admitted to the hospital and their condition is said to be serious. Full Article at DNA India
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Actor Russell Brand arrives at The White Party benefiting Malaria No More in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 4, 2009. View Photo »
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Many family members are left behind destitute when a breadwinner falls victim to a road accident. Thus road accidents remain one of the leading causes of death in Namibia together with malaria and HIV/AIDS
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If ever there was a single moment of lost innocence in global medicine, it came with the triumph of disease over the best efforts of rich nations to transfer their knowledge and expertise to the rest of the world. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Surat: A five year-old-girl, who had tested positive for falciferum, died late last night here, hospital sources said. Falciferum is a rare type of malaria in which the brain is affected. Full Article at DNA India
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - APRIL 21: Supermodel Naomi Campbell attends the BritWeek 2009 'Malaria No More' charity event on April 21, 2009 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, California.
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DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 14: Men bathe themselves on the banks of the Yamuna river on December 14, 2009 in Delhi, India. In a city of approximately 16 million, over a quarter of New Delhi residents have no access to piped water.
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DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 14: A clothes washer looks downwards as he pauses on the banks of the Yamuna river on December 14, 2009 in Delhi, India. In a city of approximately 16 million, over a quarter of New Delhi residents have no access to piped water.
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DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 14: A woman walks past an unfinished section piping leading to a water filtration complex on the Yamuna river on December 14, 2009 in Delhi, India. In a city of approximately 16 million, over a quarter of New Delhi residents have no access to piped water.
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DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 14: A Sadhu unties his boat as he takes to the Yamuna river on December 14, 2009 in Delhi, India. In a city of approximately 16 million, over a quarter of New Delhi residents have no access to piped water.
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DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 14: Litter and debris float down a stretch of the Yamuna river on December 14, 2009 in Delhi, India. In a city of approximately 16 million, over a quarter of New Delhi residents have no access to piped water.
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Boys play in smoke rising from an area fumigated by a health worker, unseen, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. Municipal bodies often take up fumigation as a method of pest control especially to control mosquito related diseases like malaria and dengue.
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Boys play in smoke rising from an area fumigated by a health worker, unseen, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. Municipal bodies often take up fumigation as a method of pest control especially to control mosquito related diseases like malaria and dengue.
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A family is Zambia is now protected from malaria after receiving insecticide-treated bed nets from World Vision.
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Researcher Steven Bentley is seen posing for a photograph with a trial crop of Artemisa annua (wormwood plant) at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge, southern England, in this September 7, 2009 handout photograph received in London on December 2, 2009.
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Niketown, London - 30th November 2009: Nike and (RED) announce a global partnership.
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Niketown, London - 30th November 2009: Nike and (RED) announce a global partnership.
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EU development and humanitarian aid commissioner Karel De Gucht (R) signs a ball with Ugundan football player 12-year old Charles Ssali and Ambassador of the 'United Against malaria Campaign' and the 'Roll back Malaria Partnership' on November 17, 2009 at the EU headquarters in Brussels.
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EU development and humanitarian aid commissioner Karel De Gucht (R) signs a ball with Ugundan football player 12-year old Charles Ssali and Ambassador of the 'United Against malaria Campaign' and the 'Roll back Malaria Partnership' on November 17, 2009 at the EU headquarters in Brussels.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - APRIL 21: Supermodel Naomi Campbell attends the BritWeek 2009 'Malaria No More' charity event on April 21, 2009 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, California.
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The UAM aims to leverage the world's love affair with the beautiful game towards forming alliances with football players, their teams, sport officials, governments and fans, towards the goal of ending malaria in Africa. The 2010 Soccer World Cup, which will be held in Africa for the first time, presents...
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The World Bank has showed interest in the project by providing resources that have never been provided anywhere in the world to fight malaria.
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wrote to retired Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the coordinator of the President's Malaria Initiative, at the end of July, requesting an increase of USAID funding
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asking USAID and Congress to redirect more money beginning next year to drug research and development from a pot of funds used to cover the range of efforts to treat and prevent malaria, such as providing mosquito nets.
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We had a meeting in Ghana with ministers and officials, and the country's minister of sport could not attend because he was down with malaria ... I told delegates thereafter that it was the best 'speech' he could've made. After that, we had all the ministers on board, promising to sleep under bed-nets.
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The world promised Africa that it would end all deaths by malaria in 2015. This is the target
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Ninety percent of all global malaria-related deaths occur in Africa, and of that, 85 percent are children under the age of five
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PEPFAR will support Uganda as it works to further integrate and expand access to other health care services, such as those that address tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health and family planning with HIV/AIDS programmes
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2010 is the year of football in Africa and we want to use football to engage citizens about malaria
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In Vietnam, a lot of people died from malaria. That could have been prevented. We don't want people to ask, 'what did the people die in Afghanistan from,' and it be the flu
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Climate change is set to worsen the conditions which contribute to the prevalence of these diseases, placing children at greater risk. The effects of climate change will reduce poor communities' access to clean water, reduce their ability to grow nutritious food, increase food price fluctuations and all...
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In less than 2 years, thanks to expanded distribution of bednets and malaria medication, malaria deaths in Africa have been cut in half in countries like Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zambia. Between 1999 and 2006, 34 million additional children in Africa were enrolled in school for the first time.
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It is twice the number of the combined deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and perinatal conditions and nutritional deficiencies
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In Macha [Zambia] we see some villages where most households are infected with malaria, but six miles away, no one is ... Not all people, even in endemic areas, are at equal risk of acquiring infection.
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Ninety percent of deaths from malaria occur in Africa. African-based companies can have a critical role in saving lives
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In countries where more people die from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than the flu, development of an H1N1 vaccine could be considered wasteful. It's money that could be better spent on treating curable diseases.
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Finally, climate change could alter the geographical distribution of disease vectors, including the insects that spread malaria and dengue.
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We are pleased that the Global Fund remains open for business in 2010. Now donors must provide funding given that the Global Fund is the best chance for many countries to scale-up HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs
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If you don’t get malaria, you have not got your passport to work in Africa
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Africa's children deserve a better fate than to die of malaria ... We owe it to them to bring this work to a good conclusion.
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Twenty years ago, a malaria vaccine was a distant dream. Now it's within reach
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Each year, more than one million people are killed in traffic accidents – more than deaths from malaria or diabetes. This conference is long overdue
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You can see the public-relations hit coming. Shouldn’t that money have gone to the foundation’s work? Wouldn’t that $500 million have been better spent on malaria research or schools in Africa? And with so much empty commercial space around Seattle, couldn’t they have found something effective and cheap...
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As many as 16 sentinel centres, with adequate testing facilities, have been set up in the state. Whenever blood samples are received at these testing centres, they are checked for malaria, dengue and chukungunya in that order. Hence, for example, if a blood sample tests negative for malaria, it is teste...
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We are very concerned about the possible emergence of new foci of malaria in Southeast Asia, where populations of the parasite may intersect with populations of hosts and vectors that support its existence ... We hope the international community responds to our call to contain the artemisinin resistance...
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