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The World's Best Investment: The Global Fund

Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Investing, Economy, Health, Global Fund, Bailouts, Africa, Malaria, Financial Crisis, Tuberculosis, Barack Obama, World News

The Global Fund is facing a funding shortfall of about $2 billion; a paltry sum in view of US financial bailouts, but resources that, if made available, will save millions of lives.

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Pakistan Malaria Emergency Imminent: UN

Huffington Post Contributor | Dan Carucci | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria Pakistan, Mosquito Nets, Pakistan Malaria, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, United Nations, Pakistan Refugees, Malaria, Fighting Malaria, United Nations Refugee Agency, Advocacy, World News

Dan Carucci I Huffington Post Contributor On top of dealing with drones, a Taliban insurgency, and a government crackdown on that insurgency, the mor...

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Sachs Ironies: Why Critics are Better for Foreign Aid than Apologists

William Easterly | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Foriegn Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Aid to Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Africa, World News

Jeffrey Sachs, the world's leading apologist and fundraiser for the aid establishment, has written a ferocious personal attack on me in his HuffPost blog, "Aid Ironies." Allow me to defend myself.

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Aid Ironies

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Foreign Aid, Wealth, Dambisa Moyo, Africa, World News

Rich people have an uncanny ability to oppose aid for everybody but themselves.

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Just What the Doctor Ordered: Clean Energy, Public Health, and Climate Change

Frances Beinecke | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Darfur, Global Warming and Health, Lancet Study, Heat Wave, The Lancet, Malaria, Malnutrition, Global Warming, Arctic, Green Energy, Green News

Climate change has been called "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." The clean energy bill that is moving through the House right now is just what the doctor ordered.

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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Remembering the Burden of Malaria on Mother's Day

Ray Chambers | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Malaria, Mother's Day, Sarah Brown, Mothers, Childbirth, Africa, Care, Mothers Day Every Day Campaign, Countdown-to-Mothers-Day, White-Ribbon-Alliance, Living News

Amidst the joy that we will share with our loved ones on Mother's Day sits the reality that too many women and children in certain parts of our planet face the cruel, unrelenting challenges posed by malaria.

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Mothers, Mosquitoes, and Millennium Development Goals

Amb. Mark Dybul | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Care, Mother's Day, Malaria, Mothers Day Every Day Campaign, White-Ribbon-Alliance, Maternal Health, Countdown-to-Mothers-Day, Living News

Malaria is particularly devastating in Africa, where it kills a child every 30 seconds -- several by the time you finish reading this posting.

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Tackling Malaria: Making Headway Against a Killer

Karl Hofmann | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Malaria, Mosquito Nets, Global Health, World Malaria Day, World News

Under the Rwandan government's leadership, we threw every possible malaria intervention at the disease -- nets, drugs, household spraying and local capacity-building -- and we did it faster than ever.

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On World Malaria Day, Commitment to Malaria Continues Despite Tough Economic Times

Richard Chin | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Treatment, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Artemisinin, Procurement, OneWorld Health, World News

The magnitude of eradicating malaria can seem daunting, but there are important short-term and long-term efforts that anyone can support on World Malaria Day and every day.

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The Bednet Bottle

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Helping Malaria Victims, Bed-Nets, Malaria Prevention, 3rd World Countries, Mosquitos, World News

In my memory, those night-time mosquitoes didn't zzzziinngg around the room, they screamed in my ear.

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President Obama and the End of Malaria

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.26.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, World Malaria Day, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Disease, Gates Foundation, Africa, World News

It is rare that we can envision the elimination of a specific disease. With malaria, we can grasp that end almost tangibly.

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Fighting Malaria: The Cure Is Action

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, World Health, Anit-Malaria Efforts, Faith Groups, Sub-Saharan Africa, Fighting Malaria, Africa, World News

"BedNets Now!" calls to people around the world to listen to the mandates of their own faith and to see the simple fact that ending malaria in the poorest regions of the world is "do-able" and should be done.

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World Malaria Day: Here in Africa, Mosquitoes Still Kill

World Vision | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama Malaria, George Bush Malaria, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton Malaria, Malaria, World Malaria Day, Barack Obama, Bill Gates Malaria, Video, Malaria Deaths, World Malaria Summit, Health, Africa, Fighting Malaria, Advocacy, World News

Even as many African countries continue to make hard-earned economic progress, the financial toll of malaria remains a roadblock to these economies reaching their full potential.

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Finding the Best Value for Dollar in Global Health

Natasha F. Bilimoria | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Global Health, Natasha F. Bilimoria, The Global Fund, Mosquito Nets, Health, Fighting Malaria, Health Care, World News

Countries that have a strategy and an implementation plan for improving health are the ones best equipped to use funding assistance.

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Abolish Malaria as a Gift for Earth Day

Cheryl Saban | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Malaria, Earth Day, Disease, Green News

Celebrating Earth is about enjoying, nurturing and protecting our environment. It's also about heling facilitate the most hospitable environment we can for earth's inhabitants.

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Health of Nations

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Bed-Nets, African Health Crisis, Malaria Deaths, Fighting Malaria, Eradicating-Malaria, Mosquito Nets, World News

Societies with the resources sufficient to create sound public health systems can survive and thrive. Societies lacking those resources risk catastrophic assaults on health, which can result in their total annihilation.

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Six Degrees of Separation: The Anonymous Other

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Fighting-Malaria, Malaria, Bed-Nets, Health Issues in Africa, Tropical-Diseases, World News

People who will always be anonymous to us are suffering and in need, ignored and left alone. It is possible to help them.

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The Mosquito Net Dilemma

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Bednets, World Malaria Day, Mosquito-Nets, Odysseynetworks, Canada, World News

It is within our power to save, perhaps, a million of our fellow citizens by helping to provide mosquito netting to people in the world's most poverty-afflicted areas.

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Our First Day in Uganda

Tom Cavanagh and Gavin DeGraw | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Celebrities Talk Politics, Gavin Degraw, Africa, Uganda, Nothing but Nets, Tom Cavanagh, Malaria Nets, The Giving Life, World News

We're a small group of people doing a small thing, driving down a junked up, dusty road to hand one family a malaria net. But the more nets we're able to buy, the more children get to grow up and tell us their stories.

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A New Strategic Consensus on Foreign Assistance Must Begin with Global Health

Carol Peasley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Global Health, Tuberculosis, The Global Fund, Global Fund, World News

It is not enough -- and not appropriate -- for international NGOs to be directly providing services. We must simultaneously build local capacity, if not, none of the results will be sustainable.

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Bailouts: A Hedge we Should be Funding

Charles J. Brown | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bush Administration, Poverty, Bailout, Health, Malaria, Obama Administration, Bill Gates, Development, Video, Davos, Davos 2009, World Economic Forum, Politics News

The funding crisis now facing the Global Fund needs to be on President Obama and Secretary Clinton's radar screen. But it's going to take more than just U.S. action.

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Gabbing with Gates: We Talk Meltdown, Malaria, Mosquitoes, and How Not Getting Enough Sleep Lowers His IQ

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Bill Gates Mosquitoes, Economic Stimulus Package, TED Conference, Ted, Malaria, Elizabeth Gilbert, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Warren Buffett, Gates Foundation, Pneumonia and Diarrhea, Business News

Notes from the TED conference, and my conversation with the world's most maniacal polymath, Bill Gates, in which we discuss the economy, his charitable giving, and what happens if he doesn't get enough sleep. READ MORE CNBC's Clueless Mark Haines Calls Me "Clueless" on Morning Joe: I Respond Only people like Mark Haines, their vision limited by Wall Street blinders, don't see the lunacy of allowing stockholders to reap rewards at taxpayers' expense. READ MORE Stimulus Package: If You Jump Halfway Across a Chasm You Fall Into the Abyss If we are going to spend two trillion dollars (and most likely more) trying to deal with the economic crisis, shouldn't we do it right? READ MORE Watch: Arianna On MSNBC, Discussing Obama Admitting His Mistakes: "A Teachable Moment"

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Why Bill Gates Released Swarm Of Mosquitoes On Important People (VIDEO)

treehugger.com | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Bill Gates Mosquitoes, TED Talks, Ted, Malaria, Ddt, Bill Gates, Video, Green News

Kidding aside, it's a good idea for Bill to bug people about how important it is to find more effective preventions and cures for malaria. It'd be a w...

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