Word: alonso
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...affected by a disease that kills more than a million people each year, Mozambique is considered a hot spot. In some parts of the country, 9 out of 10 kids younger than age 5 are infected with the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria. That's why Dr. Pedro Alonso, a Spaniard, in 1996 founded the Manhiça Health Research Centre. The terribly impoverished rural town is the last place you would expect to find a sophisticated medical laboratory. But here, working with a team of mostly Mozambican scientists and backed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, Alonso...
...drug companies are reluctant to take experimental vaccines out of their lab and into the field for human trials. But an organization called the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, started by the Gates Foundation in 1999 and now supported by a growing list of corporate contributors, is making such trials--including Alonso's-- possible...
...Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Rabat had agreed to forcibly repatriate some of the immigrants currently in Melilla. Critics of the new accord say foisting the problem on Morocco is no solution. "They're driving them in buses to the Algerian desert with no water or food," claims Pepe Alonso, a Melilla lawyer who heads the local chapter of the Association for Human Rights. "This will cause many deaths." Médecins Sans Frontières said more than 500 immigrants had been abandoned by Moroccan authorities in the desert near the Algerian border. Neither the new measures...
...early breakthrough. "There is good disposition on eta's part [to negotiate]", insists Batasuna's Otegi. "But we are still in the very preliminary stages." And violence could still erupt. "eta is still capable of attacking and will do so whenever it can," Interior Minister José Antonio Alonso said. Keep those communication channels open...
Much of the disenchantment stems from bitterness at the pace of the recovery program. Inevitably, there have been charges that relief money has been misappropriated. The government, however, claims that the relief effort so far has been a success. Presidential Spokesman Manuel Alonso predicts that the needs of all those left homeless by the quake will be met "by March at the latest...