Abp. Tutu Supports Use of DDT to Fight Malaria
The Kill Malarial Mosquitoes NOW! coalition announced today that Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has endorsed the campaign to use DDT as a primary weapon in the fight to control and eliminate malaria. The coalition wants 2/3 of world’s malaria control funds to be spent on DDT, or any more cost-effective insecticide, plus artemisia-based combination therapies (ACTs).
Archbishop Tutu describes malaria as a “devastating” disease that is holding back African development.
Read more on this important issue and the latest list of endorsers of the KMMN declaration.
Archbishop Tutu describes malaria as a “devastating” disease that is holding back African development.
Many African countries desperately need cost-effective insecticides, such as DDT, to battle the deadly mosquitoes that transmit the disease. It is a human tragedy that children die largely because donors fail to support appropriate and effective solutions to this preventable disease.
Read more on this important issue and the latest list of endorsers of the KMMN declaration.
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