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Misdirected malaria program causes disease to spread.(Inside Track)
Throughout his February Africa tour, President Bush reaffirmed his support for the programs promoted by the United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Bank that are responsible for tens of millions of people being infected by malaria. Early in his first term President Bush signed the UN Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Convention, effectively banning many important insecticides, including DDT, that are essential for controlling malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The UN's ineffective programs instead call for confronting malaria with insecticide-treated bed nets and drugs.
"It breaks my heart to know that little children are dying needlessly because of a mosquito bite," Bush said during his visit to Tanzania. At a hospital in Arusha, Tanzania, he said: "For years malaria has been a health crisis in sub-Sahara Africa. The disease keeps ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Misdirected malaria program causes disease to spread.(Inside Track)