Global Fund disputes Times report on Africa - Los Angeles Times - The Diigo Meta page

• 28 Dec 07
  

  Brian G. Dowling

  economics malaria philanthropy poverty

  • According to UNICEF, malaria kills relatively few children. Birth-related problems, pneumonia and diarrhea are the top causes of child mortality. All are treatable but occur at high rates, in part because resources are concentrated on AIDS, TB and malaria, The Times reported.
    

    • This is in contrast to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/veh4/intra_hh.pdf" _fcksavedurl="http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/veh4/intra_hh.pdf">Vivian Hoffman paper</a> <i>Malaria kills over one million people annually, 90 percent of them children under the age of five (World Health Organization, 2004).</i>
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  Brian G. Dowling on 2007-12-28
  This is in contrast to the Vivian Hoffman paper Malaria kills over one million people annually, 90 percent of them children under the age of five (World Health Organization, 2004).

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