Fighting malaria on Laura Bush's agenda
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Fighting malaria as well as AIDS is on First lady Laura Bush's agenda as she tours Africa. While the former doesn't grab the same headlines, it far outstrips AIDS as the continent's biggest child killer, claiming one young life every 30 seconds.
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First lady Laura Bush planned to use her convention speech Tuesday to present her husband as a commanding warrior against the forces of terrorism, telling delegates that 50 million more people live in freedom thanks to U.S. leadership and the president's vision.
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The President prepares to make a pitch for "global liberation" from tyranny, poverty and disease
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The Bush administration's health agenda this year will consist largely of fending off Democratic lawmakers until a new president and Congress take charge.
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President Bush will propose $3.2  billion for next year to combat the spread of AIDS globally,  one of the few increases in what is expected to be a tight  foreign aid budget, administration and congressional sources  said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization is poised to promote broader use of the pesticide DDT in the battle against malaria.
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While President Bush and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe talked trade and the war on drugs Sunday, first lady Laura Bush read in English to a group of underprivileged Colombian children.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists have said. Australian and US teams both claim that they have pinpointed the key proteins involved in the process.
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Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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First lady Laura Bush helped launch a screening facility in Saudi Arabia Tuesday as part of a U.S.-Saudi initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in the kingdom where doctors struggle to break long-held taboos about the disease.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has donated $43 million dollars grant dollars to Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company, to aid in the development of cheaper malaria treatment.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 17 - President Bush made a long-distance appeal to Congress on Sunday to reauthorize and increase funding for his program to fight AIDS in Africa without tampering with controversial elements such as its emphasis on abstinence.
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The vice president is playing a potentially pivotal role in shaping the Bush administration's ambitious domestic agenda.
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President Bush is creating a White House committee to oversee the nation's ocean policies, with plans to improve research, better manage fisheries and regulate pollution from boats.
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President George W. Bush named eight more countries on Thursday to receive U.S. assistance for malaria prevention and treatment in Africa, where the disease kills a million people a year, and asked Europeans to do more to help.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug  which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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President George W. Bush will travel  to Africa in February to highlight efforts to boost economic  development and fight AIDS and other diseases, the White House  said on Friday.