[afro-nets] RFI: Fight against malaria - Media Effectiveness (7)

["Craig Audiss" <cybrcollectinc@yahoo.com>]

RFI: Fight against malaria - Media Effectiveness (7)
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Hello All,

Couldn't help but make a couple of comments.  First, excellent writing by Peter Burgess, your analogy brings into stark reality the toll of ignorance and graft.  

I agree also with George Kent, in that Kris seems like a broken record with accountability and transparency.  These are noble things to strive for but in reality very difficult to bring into play.  The reality is as the old adage says "He who has the gold makes the rules."  It is unfortunate but very much true, and always has been that way.  

I believe that we must strive to bring about change by doing what we are doing, talking to anyone that will listen.  There are a multitude of organizations and independent news agencies out there, we need to start finding them and show them facts and figures and pictures of children dying to make them listen and pass it on.  Don't take no for an answer, get arrested if you have to for yelling at them, whatever works.  Obviously some organizations are a waste of time like WHO, and World Bank, etc. If they were going to help they would have done so 20 years ago.  The old formulas are not going to bring about change.  What can we do, really, to bring about a real change, and eradicate malaria?  We know, or at least we should know, that there is a way of controlling this terrible disease.  Let's go out there and take the money that would normally be squandered or wasted by cold hearted people who do not care, away from them by promising real results and yes transparency. If we don't then things will not change everyone.

Cheers
Craig

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Craig Audiss
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