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Anti-Malaria Efforts on Continent Bearing Fruit, but Challenges Remain - UN

Published: April 19, 2010

UN News Services

Significant progress has been made in combating malaria in Africa, but more remains to be done as the end of the decade dedicated to making control methods and treatments universally available approaches, the United Nations-led global partnership for coordinated action against malaria said today. ……

‘Patient’ Capital for an Africa That Can’t Wait

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

OP-ED COLUMNIST

Published: April 20, 2007 New York Times

Last week, I was touring northern Tanzania when our car passed the small town of Karatu and we suddenly came upon an open field splashed with colors so bright and varied it looked from afar as if someone had painted a 30-color rainbow on the landscape. As we got closer, I discovered that it was Karatu's huge clothing market. Merchants had laid out blankets piled with multicolored shirts, pants and dresses, much of it used

clothing from Europe, and were hawking their goods.

Drivers of innovation

As the UK's main drivers of innovation, universities collaborate with a range of organisations to provide solutions to global problems. Richard Scrase reports

Innovation UK Vol6-1 >>Read

Malaria Funding Falls Short of Six-Billion-Dollar Target
By Jennie Lorentsson

UNITED NATIONS, As African countries continue their relentless battle against the spread of malaria,

IPS Africa News>>Read

Anti-Malaria Efforts on Continent Bearing Fruit, but Challenges Remain

Significant progress has been made in combating malaria in Africa,

UN News Services>>Read

Kenya: Small farmers cash in on Artemisinin Production. East African farmers are key suppliers of the active ingredient in the most effective malaria drug available.

Published in IRIN >>Read

Kenya Industrialization minister, EPZ trip uncovers woes of investors and workers “The aim of my ministry is to steer our investors into seizing control of the value chain, right from raw material to finished products,” the minister said after touring Botanical Extracts EPZ Ltd - a firm which extracts and exports artemisinin, a malaria drug raw material.

Published in Business daily Africa -the International window into East Africa Business >>Read

Kenya: Growing resistance in East Africa Article Published in In-Depth: Killer Number One: The fight against malaria>>Read

DEG awards credit to manufacturers of malaria drugs in Kenya Published in EPO Newsletter >>Read

Wormword against Malaria Published in DEG Horizons Issue 1 2008>>Read

Killer Number One: The fight against malaria Published in IRIN In-Depth

Pregnant HIV patients need extra antimalarials Published in Science and Development Network

Patient’ Capital for an Africa That Can’t Wait Article Published in New York Times By Thomas L. Friedman April 20, 2007

Artemisia in Africa Based on Article Published in New Agriculturist On-Line by Naftali Kure

The new leaf that promises to change lives Article Published in Financial Times By Andrew England