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...with politics than with the simple fact that epidemiology involves an inordinate amount of guesswork. Routine re-evaluations of existing data often result in data shifts, sometimes huge ones, which global health experts and epidemiologists have come to expect. "If you go up to a little clinic in Africa, first of all, the staff are overwhelmed with patients," says Nahlen, who used to do monitoring work for WHO. The data, if it's properly recorded, then goes up to the officials, who may also be overwhelmed. Those records then get passed along to WHO. "It's sometimes hard to know...
...ascribes most of the current revision to a reassessment of the malaria epidemic in Asia (although the vast majority of malaria cases and deaths still occur in Africa, where the numbers for the continent remain mostly unchanged). Much of the Asian data, which was used in the 2005 WHO report to predict which regions had malaria-carrying mosquitoes - and therefore higher disease incidence - was already 40 years old, says Mac Otten, coordinator of the surveillance, monitoring and evaluation unit at the WHO's Global Malaria Program. Over the past four decades, the situation across Asia has changed dramatically. "With urbanization...
...similar programs are underway across much of Africa, and so malaria workers are newly optimistic. "When the coverage of the malaria interventions - the nets, the medicines and the spraying - was high, cases came right down and deaths came down as well," says Otten. With luck, for the next World Malaria Report, global figures will be more accurate still - and they'll be falling because real people are really healthier...
...South Africa Legal Victory Ruling-party leader Jacob Zuma cleared a major hurdle in his quest to win the presidency in next year's election when a judge--citing a procedural error--dismissed corruption charges against him. Zuma, who wrested control of the African National Congress from President Thabo Mbeki last year, had faced 16 counts stemming from his alleged role in an arms deal...
...attorney, he was elected to the New York State Assembly and then Congress in 1970. He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and has championed many causes in the House, including low-income housing in urban communities and divestment from U.S. companies operating in South Africa during apartheid. He and his wife Alma have two children...