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/ 25 January 2007
If it wasn’t for the fresh, sharp scent, you could easily mistake sweet wormwood for any other kind of shrub. But this shrub, also called the Artemisia annua, is widely regarded by medical experts as the best cure for malaria, one of the world’s leading killer diseases.
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/ 16 January 2007
Aid agencies and African states called for more help on Tuesday to fight malaria, a disease that kills more than a million people each year, 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. A dire shortage of money, infrastructure and medical personnel continues to make drugs inaccessible to people who most need them — children and pregnant women, the two groups most vulnerable to the disease.
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/ 17 October 2006
HIV/Aids in China has spread beyond high risk groups such as drug users, prostitutes and homosexuals and the country was becoming ”like Africa” in how the virus is transmitted, a senior health official says. ”There are 190 new HIV infections every day … and 1% of all pregnant women in China are infected,” said Hao Yang.