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...more than 400 years, the world has largely relied on quinine to combat malaria, especially the most severe cases, which kill up to 2.7 million people a year. But a study by the medical-research charity Wellcome Trust published in the Lancet last Friday showed that an injectable version of the drug artesunate?one of a range of medicines derived from sweet wormwood, a traditional Chinese herb?can reduce the chances of death from severe malaria by 35% compared to quinine. The results were so striking that the study is likely to alter the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations...
...climate was close to impossible to work in, and that was a climate created by the junta." CHRIS BEYER, AIDS expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's decision to cancel its program in Burma due to new travel restrictions on humanitarian workers...
Warren will not quote a budget for the effort, stressing its volunteer nature. But he talks of sending each Rwandan church kits he calls "school in a box," "clinic in a box," "business in a box" and so on. (The "clinic," he says, might include medicines for malaria and eventually AIDS, with guides for their administration.) He has tapped Saddleback congregants to talk with the heads of specific Rwandan sectors. Sam Smith, a retired U.S. federal administrative judge just returned from Kigali, says he hopes to send U.S. police, prosecutors and judges to advise their African counterparts in areas like...
...Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, Orokaiva villager Raphael Oembari, on Christmas Day, 1942. The Australian Department of Information, which employed Silk as a combat photographer, suppressed the photo as potentially damaging to morale, but Silk disagreed, finding it profoundly moving - and he was a determined man. While recovering from malaria in Australia, Silk found out where his pictures were being held, wined and dined a lady who had access to them, and recovered this one. He sent it to LIFE magazine, which printed it in March 1943. His actions cost him his job with the Department of Information...
...many others did, and later that year the former plumber's apprentice was told he'd been awarded the Victoria Cross for "the highest degree of bravery." By then he was in a Melbourne hospital, slowly recovering from terrible injuries and malaria. Just three weeks after his actions at Wewak with the 2/4th Battalion, Kenna was shot in the face and recalls hearing a priest at the field hospital being told he'd probably die. "I thought, Pigs," he says. Even as the last rites were administered, he remembers telling himself through the pain, "This is not going to happen...