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Malaria and cholera epidemics ravaged the city in the 17th century and it was largely abandoned, only having a remaining population of 1, 500 in 1775.
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Malaria and ravaged
Malaria devastated the Jamestown colony and regularly ravaged the South and Midwest.
The party was ravaged by Malaria, causing the death of one member.
Malaria and was
Malaria, the most widespread disease, was successfully fought through advances in health care, the use of DDT, and through the draining of swamplands.
Malaria prophylaxis was shown to improve cognitive function and school performance in clinical trials when compared to placebo groups.
Malaria was once common in most of Europe and North America, where it is now for all purposes non-existent.
Malaria was responsible for the deaths of several popes, many cardinals and countless common Roman citizens.
In 2002, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was drawn up to improve the resources available.
Malaria was endemic in the marshlands of eastern Virginia during the time, and Cornwallis's army suffered greatly from the disease ; he estimated during the surrender that half of his army was unable to fight as a result.
Agriculture was more and more difficult, the poverty increased, and diseases like Tuberculosis and Malaria were rampant.
In 1910 he was appointed the first Director of the Central Malaria Bureau, coordinating anti-malarial training and research throughout India.
Veneman is currently a board member of Malaria No More, a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria.
He was the Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin ; President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV / AIDS, TB and Malaria, the business alliance against HIV / AIDS, until his appointment as a special envoy by President Barack Obama ; and Chairman of the Asia Society.
Holbrooke's other board memberships included the American Museum of Natural History, Malaria No More ( a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria ), Partnership for a Secure America, and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Malaria was sharply reduced and trachoma, typhus, and relapsing fever were completely eliminated.
The South African Malaria Initiative was initiated in 2005 by the African Centre for Gene Technologies, a joint venture between the Universities of Pretoria and Witwatersrand as well as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ), Africa's single biggest research organisation.
Green was the Director of Malaria No More's Washington D. C. policy center.
Prior to joining the Government, he was Chairman of the All Party Group on Malaria, also of Tanzania and Vice Chairman of the All Party Aid Trade & Debt Group.
* The Roll Back Malaria ( RBM ) Partnership was founded in 1998.
* The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, a Geneva-based UN-connected organisation, was established in 2002 to dramatically scale up global financing of interventions against the three pandemics.
( Malaria was probably the real cause of his departure.
Due to a Malaria epidemic, the Adyghe settlement near Hadera was eventually abandoned.
The development of resistance to insecticides used for indoor residual spraying was a major impediment during the Global Malaria Eradication Campaign.
In earlier times the incidence of marsh fever ( Malaria ) was extremely high.
#* Tang Chiu Kin Sports Ground, commonly known as Big Field, was built in 1920 by flatening a swamp to stop the spread of Malaria, was resurfaced in 2010.
Malaria and largely
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Malaria and only
Malaria Foundation International states, " The outcome of the treaty is arguably better than the status quo going into the negotiations ... For the first time, there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before.
Though the World Health Organization adopted a formal policy on the control and eradication of the malaria parasite since 1955, only recently, after the Gates Malaria Forum in October 2007, did key organizations start the debate on the pros and cons of redefining eradication as a goal to control malaria.
Malaria and remaining
A Malaria and Smallpox epidemic wiped out most of the city's population in the early 1860s and the remaining residents in Oglethorpe fled south to Americus.
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* Malaria, which kills an estimated 1. 6 million people each year
Malaria is thought to kill around 1 million people every year worldwide.
Malaria is prevalent in tropical countries with an incidence of 300 million per year and a mortality rate of 1 to 2 million per year.
Malaria kills between 1 and 2 million people per year.
At the time of the speech, $ 9 billion was earmarked for new programs in AIDS relief for the 15 countries most affected by HIV / AIDS, another $ 5 billion for continuing support of AIDS relief in 100 countries where the U. S. already had bilateral programs established, and an additional $ 1 billion towards the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
An additional $ 1 billion was to go to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Though Obama had pledged $ 1. 05 billion per year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria for 2010 and 2011, the actual % contributed were 75 % and 60 % respectively.
On May 22, 2007 the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria announced that it had saved 1. 8 million lives since 2002, including a roughly doubling of services in the past year.
Malaria and .
The World Health Organisation estimated that Malaria killed almost one million people in 2008.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by protists ( a type of microorganism ) of the genus Plasmodium.
Malaria is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions in a broad band around the equator, including much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Malaria is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa.
Malaria may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.
Some pathogens ( such as the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which may have caused the Black Plague, the Variola virus, and the Malaria protozoa ) have been responsible for massive numbers of casualties and have had numerous effects on afflicted groups.
The largest U. S. Government programs are the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ( PEPFAR ) and the President's Malaria Initiative, which aim to reduce the impact of these debilitating diseases in Rwanda.
( but ) Malaria and other diseases now killed more troops than had died in battle.
Electron micrograph of a cell containing a food vacuole ( fv ) and transport vacuole ( TV ) in a Malaria | malaria parasite.
# Combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases: Annual numbers of new HIV infections and AIDS deaths have fallen, but the number of people living with HIV continues to grow.
WHO's Global Malaria Programme works to keep track of malaria cases, and future problems in malaria control schemes.
Malaria and other diseases affected large populations.
Malaria, even though easily treatable, is still a major killer in poor countries.
He is currently a consultant with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, based in Geneva, Switzerland, coordinating their Parliamentary relations.
A worker spraying DDT during the National Malaria Eradication Program in the United States, in 1958.
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