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Africa: White House Pushing Anti-Malaria Campaign
Dec 15, 2006
by Charles Cobb Jr.
Africans are dying from another killer disease that rivals the devastating effect of HIV/AIDS; and Americans can play a major role in helping to prevent it, says the White House.
"I think our citizens will be amazed to hear that last year, about a million Africans died of malaria," President George W. Bush told a White House Summit on Malaria Thursday.
"The vast majority were children under five—their lives ended by nothing more than a mosquito bite. In some countries, more people die of malaria than HIV/AIDS—and last week, a new study showed that people who contract malaria become more likely to spread HIV."
Copyright 2006 Allafrica.com
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 15 December 2006
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