World Malaria Day — the view from Zambia
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm | posted by ONE.Partners
Friday, April 25 is the first-ever World Malaria Day, commemorating the global effort to control malaria and reduce the toll it takes on individuals, families, and economies in endemic countries. Malaria is a top killer of children in Zambia, where I live and work, but the country is making progress against the disease by making proven malaria prevention and treatment methods available to the people who need them most.
A week of World Malaria Day events started today in Zambia, where a nationwide Prayer Night took place this evening in churches across the country. My wife, Anne Jennings, attended and photographed the vigil in Lusaka, where a candlelight procession and choral music filled the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the capital city’s largest church.
A 920-km cycling race also started today and the week holds many more events to raise awareness about malaria. Watch the ONE Blog and check my journal on path.org for more all this week.
-Todd Jennings, Advocacy Officer, Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA), a program at PATH, Lusaka, Zambia
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I recently saw a video piece on Idol Gives back with Bono talking about the Malaria crisis.
I am wondering if you know of a treatment talked about on www.miraclemineral.org that is
saying they can cure malaria very effeciently with this product which is much much cheaper
than what pharmaceutical medicine your paying for. They say on there home page
“Scientific clinical trials have been conducted in a prison in the country of Malawi, East Africa.”
I think you should have someone look into this. With products like this and the money you have it
can go a lot further and it also seems to be effective with AIDS as well. I hate to see money raised
for good like this and then end up in the pockets of the industrys that help cause so much misery in
the world. I see capitalism as we know it as the root cause of the problem and it seems to be a viscous
cycling of money. I hope this makes a difference and please let me know if it is followed up on.
Peace & Blessings…Doug
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
thank you one i have found a site it is called free rice you anser qestions and every write anser you give some rice to the people in need im only 5
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
You spell very good Sara for only being five! We’re really glad that you’re here. Please stay here with us at ONE to learn more about what you can do to make our world a better place.
I think the website that you’re thinking about is www.freerice.com. It’s a very good website to visit.
We hope to hear back from you soon. Take good care of yourself, Sara.
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May 21st, 2008 at 1:46 am
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.