Psychiatric aid should not be the first kind of assistance on a trauma scene.

Current malaria aid is echoing past policy failures--disease rates are up 10 percentin the past five years, at a time of increasing aid.

The authors assess the validity of the allegations that DDT is harmful to human health and the environment and find that they lack credibility.

There can be few more compelling and tragic examples of the abuse of science and misuse in ongoing public policy than that of DDT and public health.

Only South Africa, which is using DDT and artemisinin-based drug therapy, has malaria firmly under control.

Anti-drug company zeal and general incompetence means that the WHO and Global Fund are losing their reputations as health authorities of high standing.

Malaria in South Africaiscaused bypoor insecticide use, the malarial parasite's resistance to drugs, and the failure of the World HealthOrganization to combat the disease.

As attention turns to the International AIDS Conference,the World Health Organizationmust regain the world's confidence and not foist unproven drug therapies on the world's poor.