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African Singer Encourages Global Commitments to Malaria, AIDS and TB.
July 1, 2006
South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka urged world leaders Saturday to wage war against malaria as she paid emotional tribute to a band member who died two years ago of the disease, which kills more than a million people every year.
Phumzile Ntuli was infected while on tour with Chaka Chaka in Gabon in 2004. Upon her return to South Africa, she fell into a coma, from which she never recovered.
''Malaria robbed South Africa of a wonderful musician; it robbed her son Menzi of his mother, her family of their daughter and me of a friend I valued and trusted,'' Chaka Chaka said at a memorial service in Durban intended to highlight the threat as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria meets there to evaluate progress curbing the epidemics.
Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Max Christensen on 3 July 2006
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