Malaria in sentence

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That would give us an opportunity to actually eliminate malaria as a disease.

That's the kind of out-of-the-box science that I love doing ... for the betterment of mankind, but especially for her, so that she can grow up in a world without malaria.

All together, they achieved these results: increased the number of people on anti-retrovirals, life-saving anti-AIDS drugs; nearly halved deaths from malaria; vaccinated so many that 5.4 million lives will be saved.

So everything from a common cold to a serious case of malaria gets almost the same level of attention, and there's no priorities.

My sister fell very ill with malaria.

So if we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Both of them live at the confluence of public health and enterprise, and both of them, because they're manufacturers, create jobs directly, and create incomes indirectly, because they're in the malaria sector, and Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year because of malaria.

Now, this plant is an Artemisia plant; it's the basic component for artemisinin, which is the best-known treatment for malaria.

It's indigenous to China and the Far East, but given that the prevalence of malaria is here in Africa, Patrick and his colleagues said, "Let's bring it here, because it's a high value-add product."

Sumitomo had developed a technology essentially to impregnate a polyethylene-based fiber with organic insecticide, so you could create a bed net, a malaria bed net, that would last five years and not need to be re-dipped.

And so, Anuj took the entrepreneurial risk here in Africa to produce a public good that was purchased by the aid establishment to work with malaria.

And if avian flu hits, or for any other reason the world decides that malaria is no longer as much of a priority, everybody loses.

If it was the case, we wouldn't have between 200 and 300 million cases of malaria every year, and we wouldn't have a million and a half deaths from malaria, and we wouldn't have a disease that was relatively unknown 50 years ago now suddenly turned into the largest mosquito-borne virus threat that we have, and that's called dengue fever.

We've got several different species of agriculture coming along, and I'm hoping that soon we'll be able to get some funding together so we can get back and start looking at malaria.

Yes, there is a need for us to find a cure for HIV, to find an effective vaccine for malaria, to find a diagnostic tool that works for T.B., but I believe that we owe it to those who willingly and selflessly consent to participate in these clinical trials to do this in a humane way.

But you want to make half a million dollars trying to cure kids of malaria, and you're considered a parasite yourself.

You could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization, the Against Malaria Foundation, which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets like this one to protect children like this one, and we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the number of children dying from malaria, just one of the many preventable diseases that are responsible for some of those 19,000 children dying every day.

For instance, we're setting up clinics in Africa where we're going to be giving free antiretroviral drugs, free TB treatment and free malaria treatment.

So over the long course of human history, the infectious disease that's killed more humans than any other is malaria.

We may have had malaria since we evolved from the apes.

And to this day, malaria takes a huge toll on our species.

We've known how to cure malaria since the 1600s.

That's when Jesuit missionaries in Peru discovered the bark of the cinchona tree, and inside that bark was quinine, still an effective cure for malaria to this day.

So we've known how to cure malaria for centuries.

We've known how to prevent malaria since 1897.

That's when the British army surgeon Ronald Ross discovered that it was mosquitos that carried malaria, not bad air or miasmas, as was previously thought.

So malaria should be a relatively simple disease to solve, and yet to this day, hundreds of thousands of people are going to die from the bite of a mosquito.

So the fearsome power of this little insect was apparent to me from a very young age, and it's one reason why I spent five years as a journalist trying to understand, why has malaria been such a horrible scourge for all of us for so very long?

This little parasite that causes malaria, it's probably one of the most complex and wily pathogens known to humankind.

Just as a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, the malaria parasite transforms itself like that seven times in its life cycle.

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