Daniel in The Lion's Den | 926: Mosquitoes and Malaria XVI – Worldwide in Brief: Global – In-Depth: Killer Number One: The fight against malaria / RBM-Partnership…

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926: Mosquitoes and Malaria XVI – Worldwide in Brief: Global – In-Depth: Killer Number One: The fight against malaria / RBM-Partnership…

01 November, 2009

Gleaned from: IRIN-News and research sites…quoted as and when…

Reports in green (checked and edited) / highlights in red / extra highlights and comments in brown / dangerous in orange / highly dangerous in pink / good and true in blue / and my comments in black. Kindly note that whenever Orange and Pink indicate Horse-shit and Horse-fart respectively, you will be told…

GLOBAL: Malaria at the crossroads. Ignorance is Malaria’s greatest ally. Fighting a cunning wily malicious and resilient creature

Win some, lose some:

The Roll-Back-Malaria Partnership or RBM Partnership, born in Africa, was a reaction to the years and years of neglect. Its job is to raise awareness, to raise money, to encourage partners to co-ordinate their national malaria programmes Horse-shit, to promote the latest and most effective tools and drugs to control the disease, and to help improve the ability of those delivering the latest treatments and interventions such as long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito-bed-nets – I say: RBM Partnership actually means “Rip the Bastards and Morons Partnership” Have you read: 822 (July 2009)

Of the approximately $3 billion needed annually to fight malaria worldwide, only $600 million was actually received in 2005 – How they must have cringed and bitten their finger-and-toe-nails! However, I am sure that only 30 to 40% of the $600 million was spent on it – the rest went into pockets and bank accounts after salaries, wages, and other over-head expenses. Human-Apes do not give a damn or care a hoot about the 10 Commandments. They love and obey only the 11^thand 12^th Commandments.

The 11^th Commandment:

(a) Thou shalt choose the appropriate name for thy organisation in order to make the required impression and impact, and draw the necessary attention and funds

(b) Thou shalt not miss the chance or opportunity to exploit the situation and circumstances by spending less than 30% of the funds on whatever, and pocketing or using the rest

(c) Con and dupe, and lie to thy fellow-Apes who are seriously ill and/or dying and who come to thee for help

(d) Lie and cover up your tracks well to avoid…or better still, to obey…

The 12^th Commandment: Thou shalt not be found out or exposed or caught

As critics and supporters of the RBM movement point out; when funding flowed in the past to push back or eradicate this disease in the USA and Europe, it resulted in success. However, it was a lot more than a lot of of money that helped to eradicate malaria from these areas – Now, how they love to carp on that word, eradicate. Malaria was never eradicated from anywhere. It may have been curbed or checked, but never eradicated. Comparatively simple diseases have managed to survive despite all strategies and efforts…Climate played a major role in the victory, as did the type of mosquitoes, the strain of parasite, and the general level of prosperity in the countries.

South of the USA, Greece, Italy, and Spain were all plagued by malaria in the 1940s. These areas however, are in the temperate or fringe areas of transmission. Neither the species of mosquito, nor the malaria parasites they transmitted could compare with the more aggressive varieties found in the tropics, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cool climates, low humidity, and a lack of abundant rainfall result in fewer and less active mosquitoes and reduce the rate of parasite transmissions. When one adds to that the military zeal with which these countries sprayed the insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane or DDT, the army of people they employed to drain breeding sites – the USA hired 36,000 men to drain three million acres of swamps – the effectiveness of anti-malarial drugs – drug-resistant parasites were not many at the time – and the general level of wealth of the citizens, it becomes easy to understand why most eradication campaigns succeeded in the West. Most eradication campaigns succeeded means: It’s not over yet! Also, by spraying such an enormous amount of DDT, Man-the-Ape almost destroyed the protective ozone-layer. Do you see how dangerous the mosquito and its associates or colleagues, or partners-in-murder, are? I ask you! Now on to 927

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