Update on the Malaria crisis

[trapical]

Hey guys, I would like to share with you some good news regarding the global battle against malaria. I hope some of you guys still donate or are active on the issue. For years I have been doing what I could to fight against this forgotten disease that kills almost as many as AIDS yet gets no public attention or funding. My proudest moment on these forums by far the time we raised $2,853.57 for relief, this very forum saved about 2,500 lives of the 1.5 million who die annually.

 

 

 

Anyway, ten days ago the UN convened and the issue was finally brought to hand after years of international neglect. I am now proud to report that a Global Malaria Action Plan has been put into place with the plan aims to erradicate the disease in Africa in less than 7 years. This is a HUGE commitment that will save untold millions of lives. Its the most ambitious international healthcare project ever since the global eradication of smallpox in the 60's, and it should work.

 

 

 

Well, just wanted to share the good news, and if you were one of the ones that told friends and family about the Malaria epidemic or helped donate to public charities, you can take part of the credit for this new plan being signed into law. Good job everyone, you should be proud.

 

 

 

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-10-01-voa3.cfm

[Range_This11]

I remember your post from around Christmas time last year where you said it would cost Americans around 2 cents per year in taxes to eliminate Malaria completely. I told my whole family about it when we got together last year for Christmas (Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Grandparents too) and we all pooled some money (around $400) and sent it towards malaria. This is absolutely amazing news that Malaria will finally be put to an end.

[Orpheus]

I personally donated about $10 to it, and it's nice that that many lives could be saved. It's kinda like a double-edged sword though, think about it, just because they're saved from malaria doesn't mean they wont starve at one point(I think they have a major food shortage over in Africa, correct me if I'm wrong)

[trapical]

I personally donated about $10 to it, and it's nice that that many lives could be saved. It's kinda like a double-edged sword though, think about it, just because they're saved from malaria doesn't mean they wont starve at one point(I think they have a major food shortage over in Africa, correct me if I'm wrong)

 

That's not true for all parts of Africa. But even in the more poor regions, I would think it's better to starve at the age of 20 than to die of malaria at the age of 3. (More than 90% of malaria victims are kids < 4 years old)

[Orpheus]

I personally donated about $10 to it, and it's nice that that many lives could be saved. It's kinda like a double-edged sword though, think about it, just because they're saved from malaria doesn't mean they wont starve at one point(I think they have a major food shortage over in Africa, correct me if I'm wrong)

 

That's not true for all parts of Africa. But even in the more poor regions, I would think it's better to starve at the age of 20 than to die of malaria at the age of 3. (More than 90% of malaria victims are kids < 4 years old)

 

Well then, I stand corrected. It's such a shame these kinds of misfortunes, like malaria, have to happen. All we can do is do something about it.

[warri0r45]

Wow, that's a quadrupling of funding. That's great news, Trapical. Given how cheap the medication is for it and how simple it is to prevent by sleeping under a mosquito net, I'm sure that this disease can be seriously reduced, if not eradicated by the given deadline.

 

 

 

It's about time the human race grew a collective backbone to fight things like malaria head on. It's the kind of disease that we can cure, it's just a matter of wanting to get up and do it. Again, good to hear that we're doing just that.

 

 

 

(By the way, I would have thought that this would be on the 6:00 news, but I didn't see a thing on it)

[Intriguing]

I generally try to contribute a bit more to threads than this.. but all I can say is "awesome". :)

[warren211]

I admit, I used to be the ignorant fool. The one who would think that other people would donate to sto the disease and I didn't have to. I regret that now. I'm hoping to change and donate something. Hopefully this crisis can be ended once and for all.

 

 

 

This is major news. But how come the news doesn't seem to say anything about it? Oh, of course. Because it doesn't affect us. Why report something few people will care about? I'm sure if the cost for this was tax money, it would be all over the news.

[The Observer]

It sounds good that they're actually doing something to solve this crisis. I also congratulate Tip.it on helping him giving that much money to charity.

[Yomyth105]

glad to see u back trapical :D

 

 

 

i remember wat u did for malaria and personally remember starting a donation at my school for the cause.

 

 

 

glad to see that the world is helping out on this crisis :thumbsup:

[Barihawk]

I hate to sound like a jerk, but this is kind of useless unless the UN puts a plan into action to FEED those people they are going to save. As it is, Africans are starving. With this cure being put into effect, the population is going to boom and just make a bad situation worse.

 

 

 

Nations like the US, UK and a few others have proposed military operations to deliver food (basically milkrun style operations reminiscent of the post WW2 Berlin Airlift) as delivering it through channels only sees it's interception by warlords or the Black Market. But for some silly reason they keep getting vetoed by the Security Council.

 

 

 

I mean, this is great news! But it's going to be really BAD unless we can do something about feeding those people.

[Cyco_Reborn]

I was reading in a science magazine a month ago, that they were planning on reintroducing the use of DDT to help eradicate malaria. If that's the case then the effects would be worse than the desired results.

[InkofDeath]

I mean, this is great news! But it's going to be really BAD unless we can do something about feeding those people.

 

I have to agree. Malaria is only labeled as to what killed them, but there's tons of other variables that enabled the malaria to kill them much quicker, and then when you take malaria out, how bad is the torture of starvation & other diseases, that weren't known because malaria killed them too fast, going to be? And how big of an issue will each of those diseases become? And then will malaria come back as an issue?

 

 

 

All for saving people don't get me wrong but, there's more to it then just curing malaria.

[Tbfgraphx14]

Trapical did you get any thankyou letter/notice of your donation?

[urbestfreind]

I mean, this is great news! But it's going to be really BAD unless we can do something about feeding those people.

 

I have to agree. Malaria is only labeled as to what killed them, but there's tons of other variables that enabled the malaria to kill them much quicker, and then when you take malaria out, how bad is the torture of starvation & other diseases, that weren't known because malaria killed them too fast, going to be? And how big of an issue will each of those diseases become? And then will malaria come back as an issue?

 

 

 

All for saving people don't get me wrong but, there's more to it then just curing malaria.

 

Agreed.

 

 

 

I think I remember reading this on UNWire recently (subscribe to it if you haven't already and care about global issues). I've donated a couple dollars a few times when the MUN team at our school did some fundraising on it. Actually there aren't many things our MUN team hasn't done that I haven't thrown at least a dollar or two at (not literally, of course...I wouldn't throw dollars).

[AceSpitball]

Well, now. This is one good step in the right direction to fixing the Malaria problem.