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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (479)	12/15/2005 3:06:00 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 1267

I figured there was a catch - thanks for all the information.

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (479)	12/15/2005 6:53:19 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

Hmm, malaria kills over a million people per year. That's very well established. I don't think the claims you make are well established but are theoretical and depend on how ddt would be used. Now organizations trying to combat malaria in Africa are distributing sleeping nets - let's not kill the mosquitos - just give you a net to sleep under so they can't bite you. BTW I can recall some kind of fog being spread in my hometown on an occasional summer night in my childhood - I'm guessing it was ddt. I am unaware of any catastrophes that resulted. Call to use DDT to fight malaria May 14 2005 at 06:10PM By Leon Mangasarian Berlin - Mozambique's Foreign Minister Alcinda Abreu called on the industrialised world on Friday to provide alternative methods to fight Malaria, or drop opposition to using DDT against mosquitoes which spread the disease. "Malaria is killing our people," said Abreu during a visit to Berlin for talks with German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. United Nations data shows that malaria accounts for 35% of all deaths among children under five in Mozambique, and has helped give the country one of the highest child mortality rates in the world. 'They have to give us alternatives, not blah, blah, blah' The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria last year signed an agreement to give Mozambique $12-million worth of aid aimed at malaria, including insecticide-treated bed nets. But most children still sleep unprotected in Mozambique and Abreu's impatience with the human tragedy was palpable. When asked about Western environmental groups which fiercely oppose the use of DDT - which has been banned from farm use since the 1970s due to damaging effects on the environment - the minister's eyes flashed. "They have to give us alternatives, not blah, blah, blah," said Abreu, who stressed that any substitutes would have to be as cheap and effective as DDT. Abreu noted that DDT had been used in Mozambique by the Portuguese until the country won its independence in 1975. She said that along with other southern African states, Mozambique was preparing to start testing the use of DDT in the battle against malaria. Two districts had been chosen for tests, but Abreu declined to say when these would start. The real answer to malaria would be the development of an effective and easy-to-adminster vaccine, said Abreu. Malaria is the world's most dangerous parasitic tropical disease and kills more people than all other communicable diseases, except for tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). ... int.iol.co.za