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There are no vaccines for some tropical diseases--like malaria and dengue fever. And even the drugs used to prevent malaria don't always work. So it's important when traveling to areas where these diseases are endemic (you can learn them from the CDC website) to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants, go inside at dusk and spray insect repellent on exposed skin...
...followed by France, Sweden, Spain and Italy. The U.S. notched an even 70. At the bottom? Sierra Leone, at 26 healthy years per person. In fact, the bottom 23 places on the 191-nation list were all countries from sub-Saharan Africa, ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, malaria and other tropical diseases, poor nutrition and unsafe water. "Healthy life expectancy in some African countries," said Murray, "is dropping back to levels we haven't seen in advanced countries since medieval times." These nations lack the facilities, the funds and organization to construct a society that can take care...
Week Four--African leaders met in Abuja, the capitol of Nigeria, to discuss ways of fighting malaria. The World Bank suggested that it might be possible to find $300 to $500 million a year for this struggle--only a beginning, but definitely noteworthy...
...stops flowing--precisely when the country needs ever larger foreign contributions to restart a moribund society. Particularly hard hit has been Rwanda's medical establishment, which is grappling with some of the most pressing public-health issues on the planet. At least 11% of the population is HIV positive. Malaria, cholera and other diseases are rampant and periodically spike to epidemic levels. Malnutrition is a chronic problem here as in much of Africa, with 10% of the children afflicted. And infant mortality rates at 125 deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors...
Sachs said many scientists believe a malaria vaccine could be developed within 10 years...