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Malaria is by far the world's most important tropical disease. It kills more people than any other communicable disease except Tuberculosis. This information gives factual evidence from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its policy for Research and Training, in Tropical diseases. The WHO provides fifty four per cent, of its Disease budget to Malaria Research. This site is excellent and is full of interesting information it gives an insight into how the WHO works.



Include fever, shivering, pain in the joints, headache, repeated vomiting, generalized convulsions, and coma. Severe Anaemia, exacerbated by Malaria, is often the cause of death in areas, with intense Malaria transmission by the Female Anopheline Mosquito. NASA, who recently visited GAMBIA, and FRENCH GUIANA, in their quest for more information provides these Observations. I liked the layout of this NASA site but found the information very limited. Personally, I thought that with all their resources they would have had a Larger Health Project.


Malaria morbidity, and mortality, has been held in check by the widespread availability of cheap and effective: Anti-Malarial drugs (Quinine and Chloroquine). However, the mosquito has become Multi-Drug-Resistant. Today's drugs are ten times more expensive, and cannot be afforded by most Tropical Countries. LARIAM (by "ROCHE") is a drug of choice in this country, although it can have some side effects. In theory, there is a greater risk from not taking the drug, while visiting some Tropical Countries. It is very important to take anti-malarial drugs for protection, even at the risk of their side effects. The drug Malarone (Manufactured by "GlaxoSmithKline") has started to make an impact as one of the newer drugs available





The new project manager for Roll back Malaria is David Alnick, currently Chief of the Health Section, in the Program Division, at UNICEF's New York Headquarters. He took up his post in January 2001. Observations made by UNICEF, provide practical help and awareness (Malaria Awareness). This is one of the best sites I have come across; it is well thought out, with ample observations. It is also good to see an Englishman in charge; David Alnick has a daunting task ahead.


In 1987 Dr Manuel Elkin Patarroyo a biochemist from Colombia, developed the first Synthetic Vaccine against the PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM parasite. The vaccine is still being developed; and has not yet proven to reduce deaths in Africa. In 1992 Dr. Patarroyo donated the vaccine to The World Health Organization This site had to be the worst that I viewed, although it did have some information, it was sparse. I found it boring although it was factual even the links where limited. The site had very few graphics to hold the attention. This is very unfortunate because the subject matter is of great importance in the fight against Malaria.


A Major new centre to undertake research for a malaria vaccine is to be built in Tanzania, thanks to a grant from Bill Gates, to the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The London school, that is renowned in its field has been working with the Tanzanian government, on this issue ever since it was announced that Bill Gates Microsoft Foundation, had given it a $40 million donation to try to roll back the disease. The disease kills about three million people a year, most of who are in Africa. In my humble opinion, this is money to a good cause, and Bill Gates deserves our gratitude for this donation to World Health. This is a slow site to load, but well worth the wait, the site is full of information.



The following information is from the World Health Organization. Malaria is one of the planet's deadliest diseases, and one of the leading causes of sickness, and death in the World. There are 300 to 500 million clinical cases of Malaria each year, resulting in 1.5 to 2.7 million deaths. The greatest Mortality is in children, followed by pregnant mothers, due to Anaemia.