Press Archive
Government bent on curbing malaria incidence in Cameroon
Following a recent workshop with stakeholders in Yaounde to harmonise strategies for a national study to check malaria, expectations are high as the government is making frantic efforts to achieve one of Millennium Development Goals – that of reducing malaria-related deaths by 2010. Moki Edwin Kindzeka of CRTV National Radio Station reports.
Magazine for Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria Launched in Bamenda
After the maiden launch at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel, CAMAM now takes the lead in its North West Chapter. Preparations are already on to launch the magazine in Bamenda this Saturday, 26 July 2008. For the past couple of weeks, CAMAM NW under the able stewardship of its president, Mary Lum Azongha of CRTV Bamenda has embarked on a sustained media campaign to rally all and sundry for the big event. (The Entrepreneur)
MALARIA, DISEASE OF AND CAUSE OF POVERTY
It is a general African belief that malaria and poverty are intimate bed fellows. This alone constitutes a major obstacle against the malaria fight. Interestingly, money that ought to be used to foster economic growth in Africa is spent to combat the killer disease. Besides, many a household cannot afford money for medication or to procure insecticide treated mosquito nets and so they suffer and die in penury. The sad story of the untimely death of Hawadak only goes a long way to show how devastating malaria is.
Malaria: The ACT Alternative
The fight against malaria, that hoodoo whose multi-faceted adverse effects cut across the globe and constitute a bane of progress to humanity, is not up for negotiation.
Information: a veritable “mosquitocide”
Information we are told, is power, and good information lays the foundation for successful advocacy. The journalist can only help lay the solid foundation for advocacy in the case of malaria if he gets close to the scientists or researchers to dig out credible information that documents the severity of the malaria burden and the effectiveness of the proposed solutions. Without such credible information it becomes difficult to start and sustain an advocacy campaign. Wain Paul Ngam reports.
