Showing posts with label Melbourne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melbourne. Show all posts

Monday, 14 July 2008

"Breakthrough in malaria fight"

On one level, this is excellent news, of course.

But as far as Africa* is concerned, will it really make that much difference**?

* There are nearly one million malaria deaths a year in Africa.

** There were also over a million deaths from AIDS, caused by "the might of greed and inhumanity over morals and virtue", apparently. Crikey, that's a new on on me. Plus around ten million children who die in civil wars, or in the famines that those civil wars cause or are sold into slavery.

See also: "You know aid money works"