Carter tackles killer malaria in impoverished Ethiopia
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US former president Jimmy Carter announced distribution of thousands of insecticide-treated mosquito nets in impoverished Ethiopia, in a drive that could save up to 100,000 lives annually.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former President Jimmy Carter, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East, said yesterday he would head an observer mission to monitor the Palestinian presidential elections next month.
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Malaria may be helping spread the AIDS virus across Africa, the continent hardest hit by the incurable disease, scientists said on Thursday.
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Scientists say people traveling to Africa from Southeast Asia and South America should be screened and treated for drug-resistant malaria.
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Travellers to Africa from South East Asia and South America should be screened and treated for drug-resistant malaria, experts advise.
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.
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The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.
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The British prime minister arrives in Ethiopia for a meeting he hopes will help change Africa's fortunes.
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A baby born in Africa faces a harrowing struggle to survive even a day due to a lack of basic ante-natal care, a report by a group of international health organisations has said.
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By The Oklahoman  Jun. 19--Gov. and Mrs. Brad Henry's remedy for the malaria problem in  Africa is to give the people mosquito nets. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn's malaria fix  is a shot of Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane.
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For the first time, a vaccine in a clinical trial has convincingly shielded children in Africa from contracting malaria. Researchers hope the results will pave the way for routine jabs in countries stricken
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Actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston spent four days in Ethiopia to learn more about AIDS in Africa to prepare for a campaign to raise funds to combat the disease on the world's poorest continent, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Africa is being damaged by greenhouse gas pollution from developed nations and must sell carbon credits to grow in a "green fashion," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit on Thursday.
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British and Kenyan scientists have developed a new treatment for the killer disease malaria.
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DESPITE an exciting new development this week in the race to find cheaper and more effective malaria drugs, a group of scientists is urging health authorities to consider screening travellers from malaria-infested areas to prevent the spread of drug
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Nelson Mandela on Thursday compared widespread poverty in developing countries to man-made evils such as slavery and apartheid, and urged wealthy nations to do more to fight it.