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An explanation how MMS (claimed to cure Malaria 100%) works:
http://phaelosopher.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/ no-miracle-just-wonderful-chemistry/

There is a 100% cure for malaria. It is called MMS. http://www.mlivingstone.co.uk/page6.html

http://mmsmiracle.com/

Hi Sonia,
I was wondering what you thought about the April 2008 manuscript from NIAID Research Agenda for Malaria. I recently went to Liberia, Africa on a medical mission trip and we treated 2000 people mostly for malaria. Thank God we had a doctor from Ghana with us who on the first day told us we were using the wrong dosing and drug for this endemic area. Our American MD took the recommendation from the WHO and ordered the meds we took with us before we left the states. After a week of seeing so many sick children I new there was more to this and realized how ignorant I was on the subject of malaria. Thats what brought me to your website to get the full story and try to educate my colleagues here in the states.

Hi Charles,
The WHO's Global Malaria Programme provides technical support for malaria control projects, such as training materials. See http://www.who.int/malaria/capacitydevelopmen t.html

They should also be able to refer you to local ITN manufacturers.

I know ExxonMobil Foundation is working with Nigerian churches to distribute donated ITNs, perhaps you can hook up with them, too:
http://www.netsforlifeafrica.org/79188_9862_E NG_HTM.htm

All the best,
Sonia

Dear Sonia, My name is Charles and I am a small business owner in Nigeria. Where can I get training material on fighting malaria effectively and how do you suggest I one goes about it with special emphasis on children and pregnant women. Where can I get my hands on nets(LLIN) etc that helps in the fight.

I have been asked to assist some local governments in Nigeria and I want to get this right.

Thank you

Yesterday's stunt by Rey Clarke, who illegally climbed to the top of the New York Times building wearing a t-shirt that read "Malaria No More" is a perfect symbol of the publicity-minded tenor of the new push to eradicate malaria. Susan Okie wrote a nice editorial about it in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, pointing out the irony that the high-profile, bold notion of eradication (read: good for fundraising) must in practice focus on areas that have the LEAST malaria of all. That's because the only practical way to disrupt transmission today--and claim "eradication"--is in places where there isn't much malaria to begin with. Everywhere else, the best that can be done is suppression, with much effort, which unravels as soon as the effort flags.

Thanks for the heads up about AFM. It's not surprising that Corp heads resort to these types of tactics, but I had not read about specific instances until now.

You may have read about a study conducted by the NGO Africa Fighting Malaria, analzying the quality of antimalarial drugs available in Africa. It's gotten tons of press. AFM is a curious beast. The group is mostly staffed by Roger Bate of the conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute, who according to SourceWatch is paid about $100K a year to write papers and op-eds, mostly arguing in favor of greater application of DDT. According to TimLambert.com, the AFM raises money by promising business interests it will make environmentalists look bad. Another popular topic with AFM is protecting brand-name patents of major drug companies. Every NGO has some cross-purposes and conflict-of-interest, but those of the AFM give me particular pause.

In their most recent report, AFM analysed 195 antimalarial drugs, bought at urban pharmacies in 6 African countries. They found that 35% were substandard or counterfeit. Poor quality drugs--like overpriced ones--threaten lives. What can be done to improve the quality and accesibility of useful medicines? Bate et al have a number of recommendations, most of which seem sensible. The mask slips when they advocate reducing tariffs on brand-name drugs to zero, though. Monopolies of brand-name drugs with their brand-name prices is exactly the reason why counterfeiters make money selling cheaper fake drugs!

I was with my husband in a trip to the Amazon jungle and we catched malaria, we were the only one in the group and I admit we didn't care to use repellent as staying around Rio Negro( Negro River)where the ph is very high you feel/see no mosquitoes at all. I think people should be better advised by tourist tours what is the best in locations like this. I knew nothing about malaria. I was lucky it was detected in Brazil and we had the poprer treatment. Without knowing we could spread it around.

Dear Sonia,
Malria is more deadly than HIV and economic losses are also much more. the funds allocated are less compared to HIV

also the public attitude to hygine and self protection

I am a pubic health management consultnat an drecently have been involved in development of NationaL Malaria Control Program for India , developing its implementation plans, financial and procurement plan

The new program emphaises on erarly diagnosis and teratment to reduce mortality, disruption in transmission by use of bed nets LLNs and realted activities including training etc

it wil be interetsing to learn in due course what we all can do as Malaria is dominant in jungle and adjacent areas with marginalised population and emerging urban malaria , increae in resistsnce of choloroquin, possible development of resistnce to ACT - fake ACTs, more spread of falciparum

A friend of mine had an enormously successful local fundraiser in 2006 to buy mosquito nets for kids in Africa -- to prevent malaria. $5 each or something like that. How easy would that be to make sure everybody has one that needs one, if TPTB (The Powers That Be) were so inclined.

Then there's this totally sustainable organic nontoxic (etc.etc.etc.) mosquito repellant that you spray around your yard--grass, bushes, etc. -- and it keeps skeeters and other undesirables away for weeks or months on end, but does not harm or repel beneficial insects like ladybugs, bees, etc. I've used a different brand, in Pt. Washington (way more skeetery than Seagrove), in a very wild-jungle-vine-overgrown mosquito-inviting setting, with phenomenal and longlasting results. It's on my list this week to spray Mosquito Barrier around the yard in Seagrove -- my first shipment of this brand of the product arrived last week.

http://www.mosquitobarrier.com/

Dear sonia,

I wish the next topic you should concentrate is family planning versus family stabilization. Many international agencies claim India needs more people(2% of land , 16% of world population) than family planning operations.if population growth is not arrested India will become africa in next 20 years.

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Hi Maria,
In terms of regulation of clinical trials, in my book The Body Hunters I suggest greater transparency (so journalists, NGOs and patients can play a role in oversight) and for greater enforcement of the rules we already have, which are often ignored.

Hi Maria,
There are tons of reasons why HIV has spread the way it has, and I'm sure the experts will be arguing about it for years to come! I think many infectious diseases prey upon our ecologies, demographics, cultures...we are very enamored of the "magic bullet" solutions of drugs and vaccines, which have completely eclipsed the slow business of development and empowerment of communities and people. For malaria, certainly, better housing and safe water are just as effective if not more so than drugs and vaccines, but the malaria control community hardly has the wherewithal to implement those measures! I don't know much about HIV, but my understanding is that sexual empowerment of women and others would be a powerful tool to control the disease but of course that is easier said than done.