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Archive for March, 2007
USA: “The Day I Got Deported From the US”
There is a very interesting description of what an UN Aid worker had to experience when he tried to enter the US with his EEC passport. Also read the comments – even more insights… The story is at the The Road to the Horizon blog.
Music: Joan Baez singing “the night they drove old dixie down”
While we are at it…”Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train – ’til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again – In the winter of ’65, we were hungry, just barely alive-I took the train to Richmond that fell-It was a time I remember, oh, so well. The night they drove old Dixie down-And all the bells were ringin’ – The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin’ They went, “Na, na, na, na, na, na”…
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Happy Birthday Harry Belafonte
You won’t believe it but it’s the great man’s 80th Birthday today. So we wish you all the best and a great thank you for all what you have done in your life so far. And – as you can expect we are not talking necessarily about Calypso here….Harry Belafonte is to most people probably best known as the handsome singer who popularized calypso music in the US in the 1950s. But Harry Belafonte has done so many more things – a lengthy career as an actor, producer and music composer but more importantly is his longstanding work as an activist in the fights against racism, violence and world hunger. Being the first black performer to win an Emmy and…
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Global Health: New Inexpensive Malaria Drug introduced by NGO initiative
Every year, malaria kills 1-2 million people and infects 300-500 million. 90 percent of deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is present in over 100 countries, threatening 40 percent of the world’s population.
Malaria remains the single largest cause of death for children under five in Africa — it kills one child every thirty seconds worldwide. Today a new, inexpensive, easy-to-take anti-malaria pill is being introduced by French drug maker “Sanofi-Aventis” in partnership with “Drugs for Neglected Diseases”, a campaign started by the international medical charity “Doctors Without Borders”. Sanofi-Aventis and the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announced today that ASAQ, the new fixed-dose combination of artesunate (AS) and amodiaquine (AQ), will soon be available throughout sub-Saharan Africa. ASAQ is the first drug developed by the FACT (Fixed-dose, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy) partners, managed by DNDi in partnership with Sanofi-Aventis. Chloroquine, developed in 1934, was the first very cheap…
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