Today I read in New York Times that an article published in the British Medical journal Lancet, experts accused the World Bank of falsifying the malaria data by claiming success against the disease. The author claims the World Bank approved clinically obsolete treatment. This is a disease that kills one million children in Africa every year. Is it right to approve an obsolete treatment for such a grave disease? An expert once visualized the malaria death by filling seven Boeing 747s with children and then crushing them everyday. The Experts who published this article wants the World Bank to relinquish the money it has to fight the malaria so that the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria can take it over. The expert claim that the World Bank failed to honor its pledges.
If the rich nations would have allowed the poor African nations make free choices about the use of DDT today the malaria spread would have seized in Africa. Remember DDT became emblematic for its toxicity on non-human environment. The rich nations have nothing to fear. They are far well away from the poor nations. It is not that the African countries will be irresponsible in the use of DDT. They will use it safely. This is the only chemical that can eradicate the morbidity and mortality of Malaria without going through the red tape of World Bank
"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/world/africa/25malaria.html"
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