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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (13099)	5/29/2007 2:53:15 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

FIGHTING MALARIA BACKGROUNDA partnership between BHP Billiton, three regional governments and international organizations, has shown enormous success in tackling malaria - one of Africa’s most recurrent and deadly issues === Billiton contributed US$480 000 for the first year of the program in support of the trilateral initiative. Scientific surveys wereundertaken with the support of the World Health Organisation and a spraying program was launched in 1999. The program relies on spraying in conjunction with the LSDI. Up to 100 000 km2are now sprayed in the program, which started on just 100 km2.Malaria prevalence is down by an average of over 90% in the four regions covered in Mozambique and in KwaZulu-Natal, where... 209.85.165.104