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...drugs like chloroquine and mefloquine have fallen impotent in this Southeast Asian border area, allowing stronger strains to spread to Burma, India and Africa. But this time there's no new wonder drug waiting in the wings. "It would be unspeakably dire if resistance formed to artemisinin," says Amir Attaran, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa who has written extensively on malaria issues...
...Amir Attaran, an international health researcher at Sachs' Center for International Development, praises the student activism on the issue of AIDS...
...Students can be very, very effective in influencing how American aid money is spent-or not-on diseases of the poor," Attaran writes in an e-mail. "We are really glad to see their efforts underway...
...problem will not be contained within Africa, Attaran warned the audience...
...dead last among the rich countries in how much of our national income goes to foreign interests," Attaran said...