Fake malaria drug causes death in Myanmar

A fake malaria drug caused a death in Myanmar recently. A patient went to a rural hospital in east Myanmar where he was diagnosed with falciparum malaria and treated with the anti-malarial drug artesunate.

Sudb's bluff

They won't chicken out

Frozen chicken Imports Cameroon

Debt end

Large amounts of foreign debt are an enormous burden for many low and middle-income countries in the global South. Funds that nations could be allocating to social expenditures such as education, healthcare, water, and sanitation are being diverted to repay foreign debt. In 2003, Senegal, Malawi and eight other African countries -- many experiencing severe hiv / aids crises -- spent more on debt service than on healthcare.

Jagged track

mixed signals emanated from the xv International aids Conference 2004, held recently in Bangkok, Thailand's capital. While the meet proceeded in the desired direction by recognising the link between development and the battle with aids, it also witnessed the industrialised countries' indifference towards the less privileged sufferers of the disease.