Ending the use of DDT in malarious areas may pose great risks to the health and welfare of people and would be based on flawed analysis.

Africa Fighting Malaria is calling on the WHO, donor agencies, and other stakeholders to provide more investmentfor insecticides.

The health service, like the entire country, requires rescuing from the murderous hands of Robert Mugabe.

Although aid has increased in recent years and the price of many drugs has fallen, worldwide access to medicines, vaccines, and medical devices has not kept pace.

This paper examines the role that tariffs, domestic taxes, and regulatory requirements pose on access to essential drugs and devices for the diseases that afflict the developing world.

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.

The trade in inferior quality medicines kills innocent patients. Perhaps 15 percent of the global drug supply outside of advanced countries is counterfeit, rising in certain markets in parts of Africa and Asia to over 50 percent. But counterfeits are not the only low-quality drugs on the market.