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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Performance and Vision

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) was established very quickly in 2001 in response to a widespread perception that a rapid scale-up in financing was critical in the fight against the three diseases. While the Fund has made important progress, it faces significant challenges. The process of starting programs and disbursing funds has been slow in many countries. Certain GFATM procedures are adding to recipient burdens and fragmentation, and there are major challenges in integrating GFATM finances with existing mechanisms such as SWAps (sector-wide approaches). This paper suggests ley changes that can make GFATM stronger and more effective. (Steve Radelet, Center for Global Development, 17 February 2005)

http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/5983/

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AMMRAN - African Media and Malaria Research Network

AMMRAN is a network of African journalists and scientists working together to eradicate malaria in Africa and focuses on disseminating accurate information on malaria control initiatives, monitor and advocate the implementation of malaria policies in Africa. The network also advocates and engages policy makers to implement international agreements on malaria control.

http://www.ammren.org/index.html

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False hope or new start? The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria - Oxfam Briefing Paper

The Global Fund to Fight HIV / AIDS, RB, and Malaria. 14,000 people become HIV positive every day. The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria was set up to tack the health crisis caused by these three diseases in developing countries. But it requires massive and long-term donor funding, a transparent and equitable system of service deliver, and commitment to comprehensive programmes of prevention, treatment, and care (whick include the use of generic medicies) if better health is to become a reaslity for hte millions of women, men, and children already infected and affected by these illenesses.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/health/globalhiv.htm

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Frequently Asked Questions on DDT Use for Disease Vector Control [pdf]

Here the WHO provides answers to a list of frequently asked questions about why DDT is so controversial. On the whole, it says the amounts of DDT used for malaria control are nowhere near as high as those unleashed when it's used as a pesticide, and DDT is generally effective if sprayed on indoor spaces where mosquitoes aren't wanted, just before the peak season. (WHO, 2005)

http://www.who.int/malaria/docs/FAQonDDT.pdf#search=%22ddt%20world%20health%20organisation%22

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HEALTH: Malaria Campaigns Ramp Up Focus on Bed Nets

With a million people a year still dying from malaria, the United Nations is leading a new campaign to provide universal coverage of essential malaria control measures -- particularly bed nets -- in Africa by the end of 2010. (By Mirela Xanthaki, IPS, April 25, 2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42132

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If Malaria's the Problem, DDT's Not the Only Answer

DDT is making headlines again. Many African governments are calling for access to the pesticide, believing that it's their best hope against malaria, a disease that infects more than 300 million people worldwide a year and kills at least 3 million, a large proportion of them children. And this has raised a controversy of Solomonic dimensions, pitting environmentalists against advocates of DDT use. (May Berenbaum, Washington Post, June 5, 2005)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060400130.html

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Malaria Winning the Battle in Choco

By Constanza Vieira and Diana Cariboni, IPS, November 2007. The Atrato River is "full of malaria", according to a dozen men in rubber boots, standing in the water that has inundated the village of Tangui in Colombia's north-western jungle. According to the non-governmental Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement, between 1999 and 2006, nearly 70,000 people were displaced in Choco, Colombia, whose population is about 800,000. Malaria is endemic across much of Colombian territory. More than 25 million people of the national population of 45 million live in malaria zones, according to official data. Colombia signed on to the global campaign to "Roll Back Malaria" by half by 2010, but the country doesn't seem to be on the road to achieve that goal.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39914

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Nets for Africa: A practical way to defeat despair

A vital "weapon of mass salvation" Americans could utilize in the fight against malaria is the simple bed net. According to this commentary, Americans should work to provide better funding for The Measles Initiative, a program backed by the American Red Cross, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Foundation that couples the delivery of measles vaccinations with the distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets. (Jeffrey Sachs, Internationa Herald Tribune/New York Times, 1 May 2006)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/01/opinion/edsachs.php

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Spot On Malaria: A Guide to Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots

The Spot On Malaria Guide focuses on malaria prevention and treatment messages and ways to tailor them to reach communities often missed by national malaria programmes (Cate Cowan and Lonna Shafritz, March 2005)

http://www.comminit.com/en/node/186842

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The cost of making the poor pay

This article written by Jeffrey D. Sachs Awash Teklehaimanot and Gordon McCord of the UN Millennium Development Project, recommends practical strategies to reduce the number of people who die from malaria-currently about 3 million per year The authors recommend an integrated package of preventive and treatment methods to help achieve UN Millennium Goal of tackling the health problems of the world's poor.

http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=4&item=Opinions&itemid=442&language=1

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria

The purpose of the Fund is to attract, manage and disburse additional resources through a new public-private partnership that will make a sustainable and significant contribution to the reduction of infections, illness and death, thereby mitigating the impact caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in countries in need, and contributing to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development goals.

http://www.theglobalfund.org

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The Roll Back Malaria Partnership

To provide a coordinated international approach to fighting malaria - a disease that kills more than a million people each year, most of them children - the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Global Partnership was launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNDP and the World Bank. RBM's goal is to halve the burden of malaria by 2010.

http://www.rollbackmalaria.org

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Vitamin A and Zinc Should Be an Essential Part of Malaria Control Strategies

A study by Burkina Faso's Health Sciences Research Institute shows giving vitamin A and zinc supplements to children has been shown to reduce the incidence of malaria among them by a third. (IPS, 13 February 2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41188

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West Africa: New approach to malaria recommended

A World Health Organization evaluation of West African countries' progress in controlling malaria has recommended that donors allocate more funds to indoor spraying and to helping countries purchase the latest anti-malarial drugs. (West Africa Weekly Roundup, 28th October)

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74954

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World Malaria Report 2005 [pdf]

The persistence of malaria in much of the developing world remains a public health problem of staggering proportions. Most people may be familiar with the problem of malaria throughout much of Africa, but over the past decade, incidences of the disease increased in Southeast Asia and a number of Central Asian countries. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO), with assistance from several other international humanitarian organizations, released the World Malaria Report 2005. This site provides access to the complete text of the report and profiles of the state of malaria in each country.

http://rbm.who.int/wmr2005/

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