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...tied with a bow. For six years, she slept on the ground, cutting trees and leveling rocks with only an axe and a sledgehammer. "Sometimes I thought I would die in that jungle," she says. At least five of her friends did: three from American bombs and two from malaria...
...lies between a stream and a cliff overgrown with ferns. It offers some of the most stunning scenery we've seen, but the construction workers-who insist we join them in a noontime toast of rice wine-are less charmed by it: two of their colleagues are bedridden with malaria. There are other dangers: since the roadwork began, more than 20,000 wartime bombs have been unearthed and detonated along the route...
...There are looming problems on the international front too, as Western drugmakers fight back. WTO representatives meeting in Geneva last month hammered out an agreement that allows poor countries, when faced with crises such as AIDS or malaria, to waive international patent laws and buy cheap foreign copies of expensive drugs. Though Indian companies have had a huge impact on the prices of AIDS drugs in Africa (see chart above), they're not actually selling much of their products there because many African nations honor international patent laws. Cipla's Hamied estimates that his company provides drugs to no more...
Still, there is little debate over the usefulness of Lariam in preventing malaria...
...Lariam remains one of the drugs of choice for the prevention and treatment of malaria by leading public health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization,” Hurley wrote in an e-mail. “As with all medications, doctors should talk about the benefits and risks of any prescription drug as well as the side effects...