NEWS!
8,219
people are dying EVERY DAY from a curable disease...
from Malaria, a disease we eradicated in the US and Europe decades ago.
90% of those who dying are in sub-Saharan Africa, people of all races and colors. Malaria is a beatable disease.
People shouldn't die from a mosquito bite.
Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted via mosquitoes. It kills up to 3 million people every year and makes an additional 300 million seriously ill. Ninety percent of deaths are in sub-Saharan African. Most of them are young children. |
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EU URGES ACTION
On April 24, 2007, the European Union and Group of Eight president urged capable countries to do more to fight malaria in Africa. They also announced the forming of a European group to draw attention to the problem.
"If malaria was an illness which directly threatened industrial countries, I am quite sure there would already be medicines available," said German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, who announced that she would head the European Alliance Against Malaria, a group of ten organizations from five EU countries, that aims to raise the profile of the problem and coordinate action.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $6 million to the alliance, covering the cost of operations for three years |
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ROLL BACK MALARIA! |
