As our movement continues the fight against the most devastating diseases the world faces, progress, toward greater understanding and attention, is being made.

But more still needs to be done.

Here’s what we learned last week:

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  At the White House Summit on Malaria, President Bush declared malaria a disease we can beat, and added eight countries to the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), an effort to work with the faith-based organizations and the private sector to halve the number of malaria deaths in Africa.

  
  “Defeating malaria, President Bush said, “is not going to require a miracle. It just requires a smart, sustained, focused effort.”
  -President George W. Bush, 12/14/06

• In a paper published in the journal Science, researchers found that AIDS and malaria interact and exasperate the effects of each other. “One important lesson of the study is that protecting HIV-positive people from malaria would also limit the spread of AIDS.”