AFRO-NETS> Ethiopia Distributing Malaria Medication

[Dr Rana Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>]

Ethiopia Distributing Malaria Medication
----------------------------------------

Source: U.N.Wire 
Friday, October 10, 2003
 
The Ethiopian government started handing out anti-malaria drugs 
on Wednesday to people in three regions in an effort to avoid a 
repeat of an outbreak last summer that killed more than 4,000 
people.
 
Heavy rains on the heels of severe drought have raised the spec-
tre of a bad epidemic this year. The drought left millions weak-
ened by malnutrition - about 13 million Ethiopians are at risk of 
starvation - and the rains are providing an ideal environment for 
mosquitoes.
 
"This year we face the risk of a massive malaria epidemic, which 
could severely hit women and children already vulnerable after 
the drought and the resulting humanitarian crisis," UNICEF coun-
try representative Bjorn Ljungqvist said.
 
An Ethiopian official said last month that many of the people who 
died in the summer outbreak in the country's north perished be-
cause of the unavailability of anti-malaria medicine 
(Reuters/ReliefWeb, Oct. 8).
 
--
Dr Rana Jawad Asghar
Program Manager Child Survival, Mozambique
Provincial Coordinator Sofala Province, Mozambique
Health Alliance International, Seattle, WA, USA
http://depts.washington.edu/haiuw/
Coordinator South Asian Public Health Forum 
http://www.saphf.org
mailto:jawad@alumni.washington.edu
http://www.DrJawad.com

--
To send a message to AFRO-NETS, write to: afro-nets@healthnet.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@healthnet.org
in the body of the message type: subscribe afro-nets OR unsubscribe afro-nets
To contact a person, send a message to: afro-nets-help@healthnet.org
Information and archives: http://www.afronets.org