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1. Key Interventions Save Children's Lives in Myanmar

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   Seventy percent of Myanmar’s children under 5 live in rural areas and are therefore highly susceptible to diarrheal disease, pneumonia and other acute respiratory illnesses, which are the primary causes of death among children under 5 in the country. Dug wells, tube wells,...

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2. Thousands lack access to effective anti-malarial treatment

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   New malaria research unveiled today in Kenya finds that thousands of people die each year because they can't afford - or don't have access to - the most effective form of treatment, called artemisinin-based combination therapies or ACTs. The ACTwatch research project,...

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3. Millions die because of high malaria drug prices

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   Artemisinin combination therapy drugs good but expensive 6-nation study says ACTs can cost 65 times daily wage LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Nearly a million people die from malaria each year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment and instead often buy old...

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4. Malaria: a research agenda for the eradication era

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   The world’s largest meeting on malaria, the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference, convenes in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov 1–6.1 Since the last MIM meeting in 2005, the malaria landscape has transformed dramatically. Scientific progress and...

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5. PSI/Cambodia Provides Birth Spacing Services in Rural Communities

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   PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – PSI has a launched new program to provide high-quality birth spacing services to rural communities in Cambodia. During a recent outreach event, about 200 women were counseled on birth spacing and an additional 200 received intra-uterine (IUDs) devices...

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