Priority: Malaria G8 Expanded Role Government of Canada

April 25 marks World Malaria Day, reminding us of one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Caused by mosquito bites transmitting any one of the plasmodium family of parasites, malaria infects about 300 million people every year and kills somewhere between 1.5 million and 2.7 million of them. And these are only the more conservative or optimistic numbers. The Kenya Medical Research Institute, for instance, believes there are 515 million cases of the most harmful form of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, alone.- Daniel Tseghay Canada must put fighting malaria at top of G8 agenda April 19, 2010

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Let's hope the Liberals don't get any goofy advice, play political games on this file as they did earlier with demanding tax funded abortions for the third world.

Let's hope they join in an adult conversation and push for safety, clean water, food, immunization programs to help with Malaria as a higher priority to save lives in the third world.


From CIDA  website

• increasing food security
• securing the future of children and youth
• stimulating sustainable economic growth

These three themes, which complement other major aid effectiveness components such as untying aid, geographic focus, and decentralization, will guide CIDA's future programming decisions. This will allow Canada to focus on key issues and challenges that partner countries are faced with and ensure that Canadian international assistance investments are achieving concrete results.


Let's hope for some adult conversation from the opposition on this file.

Maternal Health vs State Funded Abortion Stunt

Many of us understood the political games in Ottawa were not about saving lives, it was about dividing parliament and destructive politics. A large number of us have been calling for a priority on real measurable targets. Will the opposition continue to play games or will they help in resolving issues around maternal health.

Clean drinking water, food security.

“We would urge, however, that providing decent sanitation be emphasized among the simple, inexpensive solutions available, as it would do more to save the lives than any other possible measure,” says Zafar Adeel, director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health at the United Nations University based in Hamilton, Ont. Adeel also chairs UN-Water, a co-ordinating body for water-related work at 27 UN agencies and their partners.

Clean water and toilets are critical to mothers and their children, Adeel noted as his group released a report Wednesday laying out a nine-point plan to improve sanitation globally by 2015.

Priorities....

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