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World Malaria Report

The World Health Organization's Global Malaria Programme has issued its World Malaria Report 2008. The gist of the argument is as follows: Things cotinue to improve. they need to improve more. The number of nets to protect people from malarial mosquitoes has risen impressively. It needs to rise more. the number of people with access to proper medicines if they do get malaria has risen. That number needs to rise more.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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