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Another Silent Killer MOZAMBIQUE While George W. Bush promoted a $15 billion U.S. program to fight AIDS in Africa, scientists prepared to take a major step toward one of medicine's Holy Grails: a malaria vaccine. This week, at a clinic in the town of Saude Manhiça, north of the capital, Maputo, experts from an international public-private partnership will kick off a large-scale clinical trial - involving 2,000 children, ages 1 to 4 - to test a GlaxoSmithKline drug called RTS,S/ASO2A. It is the most advanced of the 80 malaria-vaccine candidates now in development...
...Number of children who die each day from malaria...
...leaders from the developing world to attend part of the summit, emphasizing his multipolar vision of the world. It was Chirac, two years ago at the violence-marred G-8 meeting in Genoa, who was among the most forceful instigators of the Global Fund to Fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. For months he has been saying that a key objective of the Evian summit would be "to halt the spread of the major pandemics and especially of aids." Then along came George W. Bush to upstage Chirac. Less than a week before his trip to Evian, the American President signed...
...average day at his Clinique Bon Saveur in Haiti involves treating desperately sick adults and children, “most of them TB or HIV patients with a bit of malaria thrown in,” he says. In the brief moments between patients, Farmer will confer with political leaders about grave issues of public health...
...years in Haiti, constantly exposed to ill patients, Farmer casually mentions that he’s had malaria “a couple of times. Well, maybe more than a couple.” He’s also managed to contract “the usual diseases that goofy anthropologists or incautious students get,” though he has somehow avoided acquiring the drug-resistant tuberculosis he often treats...