[afro-nets] Use of DDT against malaria (7)

[Omololu Falobi <omololu@nigeria-aids.org>]

Use of DDT against malaria (7)
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Craig Audiss wrote:

"People in Africa do not live under a bed net. They stay outside until 
way after dark to let their houses cool off before going to bed. This 
is when many are infected..."

As an African, I am sick and tired of people in Europe or North America 
who sit down hundreds of thousands of kilometres away and make sweeping 
statements about Africa, as if Africa is a small village in their 
backyards.

Africa is 53 countries and some 700 million people! She is not some 
sprawling stew of slummy villages where everyone is uneducated, 
backward, poor, homeless and helpless as Audiss' mindset suggests.

Next time you want to make a statement about Africa, please be specific 
and talk to what you know. Africa has enough challenges as it were, 
without do-gooders adding to it with their sweeping generalisations as 
if Africa is one steamy hell-hole!


Omololu Falobi
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria
44B Ijaye Road, Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria
mailto:omololu@nigeria-aids.org
http://www.nigeria-aids.org