WHO wants malaria drug used "properly".

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This article below is the most evil plot to deceive and deliberately allow people to suffer all in the name of money.
1. Artemisinin (an unpatentable herb)KILLS malaria immediately and completely leaving the sufferer with NO lifelong need for medication.
2.Malaria, like diabetes is a deadly disease that IS A big money making INDUSTRY keeping sufferers sufficiently infected to need to buy and take medicine for life.
3."Traditional pharmaceuticals prescribed for malaria became nearly TOTALLY ineffective to even keep people alive long enough to buy their worthless medicine very long and literally became a death sentence.
4. The pharmeceutical companies MADE A DEAL WITH WORLD HEALTH ORG. that they would put a small amount of artemisinin into their worthless drugs so the people would not keep dying so fast, and supply the patented mixture to WHO cheaply if WHO would control the supply of artemisinin and they could PATENT their new drugs that were a mixture of worthless and effective. They did not want the public to learn and use the very cheap and easily grown artemisinin and WIPE OUT A WHOLE MARKET AND INDUSTRY BY RIDDING THE WORLD OF MALARIA ON THE CHEAP.
5. They are now promoting the outright lie that taking straight artemisinin and completely curing a person is more likely to make malaria resistant to artemisinin than their plan to keep a person infected by only subjecting the malaria parasite within them to non-lethal, tiny doses of artemisinin in their patented new artemisinin mix malaria medications. Well any fool knows a tiny-non lethal dose of anything that permits parasitic survivors is MUCH MORE LIKELY to create resistance in the surviving parasites than killing them all with a lethal dose.
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WHO advises proper use of malaria drugs
By STEVE MITCHELL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization has warned countries to monitor the use of anti-malarial medications to ensure the malaria parasite does not develop resistance to the drugs.

"It is crucial that these medicines be used correctly," said Dr. Pascal Ringwald, a medical officer in the WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department and principal author of a new report on proper use of anti-malarial drugs released by the international health agency this week.

In the report, "Susceptibility of Plasmodium Falciparum to Antimalarial Drugs," the WHO said it is essential that drugs derived from the plant Artemisia annua be used in combination with a second drug, not as stand-alone therapy.

"Otherwise, the medicines could lose their potency over time due to the development of resistance," the agency said in a statement.

The report urged governments to use only WHO-approved, high-quality artemisinin-based combination therapies, or ACTs, because drugs of low quality could lead to resistance. The high-quality combinations consist of an artemisinin-based drug combined with amodiaquine, lumefantrine, mefloquine or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine.

Malaria is a leading cause of death worldwide, with 300 million to 500 million cases reported each year, causing approximately 1 million deaths. The disease occurs in more than 100 countries, including the regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

P. falciparum, the malaria parasite, is transmitted by mosquitoes and is infamous for its ability to develop resistance to anti-malarial medications. WHO officials emphasized proper use of ACT regimens could delay the parasite from developing resistance and ensure the drugs remain effective.

"We have the means to enhance the lifespan of ACTs," said Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, the director of WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department. "In addition, we must move forward energetically on research to develop new antimalarial medicines."

Ringwald said resistance to artemisinin has not yet been detected and noted that WHO officials "are watching the situation very attentively."

The WHO report recommends that governments educate all people on anti-malarial medications about the importance of finishing their entire course of treatment to help reduce the chances of the development of resistance.

Efforts to fight malaria received a boost Monday. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that international donors had pledged $3.7 billion in funding for 2006 and 2007. This is more than half of the $7 billion the Global Fund projects it will need for the two-year period.

Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, said the donations "will help countries establish comprehensive programs to fight AIDS, TB and malaria and they will provide us all with an important source of hope and encouragement for the future; hope that we can make major progress in reversing the spread of AIDS and other infectious diseases."

E-mail: sciencemail@upi.com

Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
 

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Malaria meds are a waste of time

People traveling to third world countries are usually given anti-malaria pills that have very serious side effects and aren't effective against several prominent strains of malaria.

Friend got malaria while on an archaeological dig with her university. The local village women treated her with native herbs and she recovered. The team doc insisted this remedy wouldn't work and wanted to send her back to the states....never mind that she was too ill for the journey.

Mother Nature is in balance and wisely created an equal reaction for every action. Natural remedies work as well as or better than traditional medicine in many cases.

The cure for cancer is probably a weed that grows by the side of the road in Botswana but is being killed out by modern pesticides.
 
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