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Your report on the courageous efforts of common citizens around the world to fight appalling diseases in the poorest countries [Nov. 7] should be required reading for all. I especially recommend it to members of Congress. Instead of funding pork-barrel projects, why not finance completion of the malaria vaccine? As a health-care worker, I was astonished to read how far development of the vaccine has progressed. We have a golden opportunity to eliminate the disease...
Spielman also said that the study’s warning about the spread of malaria “is a bit of a stretch.” The study forecasted that suffering from malaria would increase by more than 100 percent in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe later this century...
More generally, the study presented a two-level approach to reduce the risks of climate change. The first level, “direct mitigation,” includes, among other measures, increasing monitoring of extreme weather hazards and distributing bed nets to curb the spread of malaria, Firth said...
SAFETY NET The latest textile techniques embed insecticide in long-lasting nets, which repel malaria-causing mosquitoes even after 20 washings...
...cannot save every life. But the ones we can, we must. It is--or it ought to be--unacceptable that an accident of longitude and latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. In America and in Europe we have dealt with polio, malaria and TB with the ruthless efficiency they deserve. Beyond our own borders, we have offered excuses instead of solutions. We need to stop this two-steps-forward, one-step-back tango that we have been dancing for years and start marching...