Bill Gates agrees: We can eliminate malaria in a generation


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Gates Foundation image: A nurse dispenses a malaria drug to treat an infected child in Tanzania.

Gates Foundation image: A nurse dispenses a malaria drug to treat an infected child in Tanzania.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2015 at 2:01 am and is filed under DDT, Health care, Malaria, medicine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to Bill Gates agrees: We can eliminate malaria in a generation

  1. India, world’s top DDT user, socked with malaria increase | Millard Fillmore's Bathtub says:
    July 22, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    […] By 2014, fewer than 220 million people got malaria infections, worldwide, a reduction of about 55% over DDT’s peak-use years. This is remarkable considering the population of the planet more than doubled in that time, and population in malaria-endemic areas rose even more. Malaria deaths were reduced to fewer than 600,000 annually, a reduction of more than 80% over peak DDT years. By 2015, malaria-fighters once again spoke of eradicating malaria from the planet. […]

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  2. Malaria fight, February 2015 | Millard Fillmore's Bathtub says:
    February 20, 2015 at 3:09 am

    […] agencies and especially NGOs like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation brought new funding and new urgency to the fight against malaria.  Expansion of production of artemisinin-based pharmaceuticals […]

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