AFRICA MALARIA DAY 2002
PRESS & MEDIA COVERAGE
TV, radio and journal interviews
- CNN Inside Africa - Kamini Mendis (live TV)
- UN Radio USA - David Alnwick (radio)
- BBC World Service Swahili - Clive Ondari (radio)
- RFI - Iain Simpson (radio)
- Voice of Germany - Pierre Guillet (radio)
- Wall St Journal - John Paul Clarke
- Afrique.com - James Banda
- Talking Africa - Richard Allan (radio)
- UN radio (French edition) - Andrea Bosman (radio)
- Radio Algerie - Andrea Bosman (radio)
- RFI - Andrea Bosman (radio)
- Channel Africa -Peter Olumese (radio)
- Voice of America - Andrea Bosman (radio)
Press conference: Palais de Nations, Financial Times, Voice of America, Daily Telegraph, Agence France, Associated Press, Reuters, Lusa
Newspapers
Africa marks Malaria Day(CNN)
Africa marks war on malaria (BBC)
Africa to get cheap malaria drug (BBC)
Import Tax on Malaria Nets In Africa Remains in Place (The Wall Street Journal)
'Drop malaria tax' campaign launched (Agence France Presse)
26 African States Fail to Remove Mosquito Nets Import Tax (Xinhua General News Service)
Africa fights malaria (News24.com)
Africa Malaria Day used to rally efforts to fight the continent's deadliest disease (Associated Press)
Africa Mobilising Communities to Roll Back Malaria (BuaNews, Pretoria)
Africa Takes Steps Towards Combating Malaria (South African Press Association)
Azeri paper says malaria widespread in refugee camps (BBC Worldwide Monitoring)
Bill Clinton Foundation to Stage Anti-Malaria Run (The Independent, Banjul)
Breakthrough expected soon in mosquito wars (Daily Press)
Calls Made for Concerted Effort to Fight Malaria (The East African Standard, Nairobi)
Centre de santé Nabil Choucair: Le paludisme, la pathologie dominante (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Disease fund issues first grants (Financial Times)
District sanitaire de Bambey: Le martyre d'enfants et de femmes (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Dr Papa Amadou Diack (coordinateur du programme contre le paludisme): Vivre avec, sans en mourir (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Four Priorities for the First Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB, And Malaria (Centre for Strategic and International studies)
Funding Boost for Fight Against Malaria (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
Gene researchers are gaining on disease-carrying mosquitoes (Newsday, NY)
Global AIDS Fund Announces first grants, totalling 378m (Agence France Presse)
Global AIDS Fund Awards Grants (the Associated Press)
Global Fight Against Funding for People with AIDS, TB and Malaria (Africa News)
Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, Malaria Announces First Grant Recipients (Health GAP Coalition)
Global Fund to Fight Disease Running on Empty (US Newswire)
Group Advises Government On War Against Malaria (Vanguard, Lagos)
Heading off Malaria (New Scientist)
Hope on Continent on Africa Malaria Day (Agence France Presse)
Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets Offer Hope In Fight Against Malaria (PSI)
Journée africaine de lutte contre le Paludisme : Lever les taxes sur les moustiquaires pour sauver les femmes enceintes(Le Phare, Kinshasa)
Journée africaine de lutte contre le paludisme: Dr. Ebrahim Samba (OMS Afrique) invite les Etats à plus d'engagement (Notre Voie, Abidjan)
Journée africaine du paludisme - Les Congolais face à une arme secrète (Le Phare, Kinshasa)
Les médicaments anti-paludiques: Quinine (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Les moustiques peuvent-ils transmettre le virus du sida ? (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Low Foreign Investments Blamed On Malaria
Lutte contre le paludisme : la vulgarisation des moustiquaires imprégnées s'impose (Sidwaya, Ouagadougou)
Malaria and alligators will be thriving here by 2080, scientists tell Whitehall (The Evening Standard, London)
Malaria Causes Most Deaths in Infants And Pregnant Women (Accra Mail, Accra)
Malaria claims a death in Africa every 30 seconds (Agence France Presse)
Malaria Day Used to Rally Awareness (The Associated Press)
Malaria increasingly difficult to contain (Agence France Presse)
Malaria Vaccine trials start in Kenya (Agence France Presse)Malaria war is still tough (Agence France Presse)
Malaria: Government Budgets N400 Million for Nets (Daily Trust, Abuja)
Malaria: Vaccine Initiative Announces New Trial on Africa Malaria Day (UN Wire)
Mbarara Leads in Malaria Cases (The Monitor, Kampala)
Mor Ndiaye et la moustiquaire imprégnée (Le, Soleil, Dakar)
Mosquito fighters put the bite on an annoying pest (Courier Mail)
Novartis malaria treatment Coartem added to WHO essential drug list (AFX European Focus)
Over 40 Million At Risk of Malaria (UN Integrated Regional Information Network)
Paludisme 1.392.483 cas enregistrés à Madagascar en 2000 ! (Midi Madagasikara, Antananarivo)
Paludisme: La routine d'un grand tueur en série (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Paludisme: Une arme venue d'Extrême-orient (Le Soleil, Dakar)
Pileuses de la Médina: À coups de pilon, elles réduisent la pauvreté (Le Soleil, Dakar)
PSI Launches Largest Malaria Project (PSI)
RD Congo : entre 200.000 et 500.000 décès chaque année (Le Phare, Kinshasa)
Rolling Back Malaria in Africa (Ghanaian Chronicle, Accra)
Study of Mosquito Hormones May Offer New Mosquito Controls (Ascribe Newswire)
This Mass Killer Disease is Not Inevitable (The Nation, Nairobi)
Thousands Mark Africa Malaria Day (The Daily News, Harare)
Today is Africa Malaria Day (Accra Mail, Accra)
U of A students will help fight scourge of malaria in Tanzania (The Edmonton Journal)
US Congress Certain to Soon Approve Major New Contribution to Global Fund To Fight Aids TB And Malaria (Health GAP Coalition)
US to Spend Sh220m On Malaria Vaccine (The East African Standard, Nairobi)
War Against Killer Malaria Can Be Won (The Monitor, Kampala)
Who Hails Kampala Over Free Drugs (New Vision, Kampala)
WHO: 120 Children Dying of Malaria Each Hour (East African Standard, Nairobi)
Press Releases
WHO: Africa Malaria Day Commemorated in Brussels — La journee africaine du paludisme marquee a Bruxelles
WHO: WHO Urges Countries to Act on New Anti-Resistance Malaria Medicines — L'OMS engage les pays a adopter de nouveaux antipaludiques non resistants
RBM: Uganda targets child killer on Africa Malaria Day — Une nouvelle initiative de l’Ouganda ? l’occasion de la Journé africaine du paludisme
AFRO: Africa Faces New Malaria Threat
Message of the Regional Director AFRO: Africa Malaria Day 2002
UNICEF: Communities roll up their sleeves to roll back malaria
GlaxoSmithKline: GlaxoSmithKline marks 'Africa malaria day' with new community initiative for malaria in Africa
LSHTM: Africa Malaria Day - Thursday 25th April
NetMark: NetMark launches in Nigeria
ADB: The African Development Bank Celebrates Africa Malaria Day 2002
MSF: WHO Announcement on Africa Malaria Day Signals Positive Shirt in Treatment Policy(MSF press release)
MVI: U.S. Army Joins Forces with Malaria Vaccine Initiative to Launch Clinical Trial in Kenya
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Statement to Mark Africa Malaria Day by William H. Gates Sr., Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Essential Medicines List: Novartis' life-saving malaria treatment Coartem® added to the WHO
