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The yawn that greeted the announcement this week reported on by Joyce Howard Price that officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development are now vigorously endorsing and funding the use of DDT in Africa is representative of the world community's general lack of concern over the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from malaria every year. We applaud USAID's decision, even if we regret how long it's taken to reach it.
Put bluntly, malaria's killing spree believed to be somewhere in the realm of 50 million people since 1972 is worse than AIDS. Of the 500 million annual victims, 90 percent live in Africa. In the sub- Saharan nation of Uganda alone, malaria is responsible for the deaths of 100,000 children under the age of 5 every year. In dollar amounts, the United Nations says malaria costs Africa about $12 billion annually, or about 40 percent of its health expenditures.See the full content of this document
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Save Africans, Kill Mosquitoes
None of which is news to those who have witnessed the ongoing genocide for years, pleading with Weste...
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