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...April of 2001, Secretary General Kofi Annan established the U.N. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The initial goal was set at $10 billion a year, with contributions pledged by countries around the world. As activists and economists have noted, those contributions are not coming in as fast as might have been hoped - the 2002 figure stands at $3 billion - and some protestors are targeting the European Union and the U.S. for not giving enough. (The U.S. has pledged $500 million to the fund...
Part of the danger comes from pests that carry such illnesses as malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease, which are expanding their ranges from the tropics toward the poles or to higher altitudes. Parasites like warm weather too: a tiny protozoan that breeds between the abdominal scales of monarch butterflies is just one example...
...museum are unusual: scientists say the Cambodian Free-Tailed Bat, in particular, can be found nowhere else in the world. In addition, the museum's 2 million bats were messy but useful: they were credited with eating an estimated 17 tons of insects each night, helping reduce mosquito-borne malaria. So the government scrapped its plan to eradicate the bats. (Another factor was that the museum makes $250 a month selling bat guano.) A second, wooden ceiling, installed in 1995, failed to keep the excrement out of the gallery, so the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society is trying...
...suggested immediately increasing U.S. annual foreign aid to $20 billion, saying that the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria lacks adequate funding...
Kerry and Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) plan to introduce legislation for a U.S. contribution to the Global Fund, a U.N.-sponsored project that aims to raise $10 billion to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria...