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...Mann was a forceful and eloquent proponent of health and human rights," said Halfdan T. Mahler, who worked with Mann...
...carrier black flies. But in many areas the insects developed a resistance to the sprays. Enter ivermectin. The drug works by attacking the primary cause of the disease, the worms. Although it does not kill the invading parasites, biannual doses of ivermectin can prevent them from reproducing. Predicts Halfdan Mahler, director-general of WHO: "Ivermectin will revolutionize the way countries face this debilitating disease...
What faces the world's population, said Dr. Halfdan Mahler, the Danish director of WHO, is a "health crisis of pandemic proportions." Meeting it, he said, will require expenditures of $1.5 billion a year by the start of the 1990s for a massive global public-health program. In the past five years, there have been an estimated 100,000 AIDS cases throughout the world, most of them in North America, Africa and Western Europe. One million people are currently suffering from AIDS-related disorders. Moreover, as many as 10 million have been infected with the AIDS virus and are capable...
...assume that it was solely a Western disease. Today the U.S. accounts for 80% of the 28,976 active cases reported to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. But it increasingly appears that the number of reported AIDS cases is far smaller than the true incidence of the disease. Halfdan Mahler, director general of WHO, estimates that there may be as many as 100,000 cases globally, plus up to 10 million carriers of the virus...
Citing the "considerable danger to adjacent countries," a draft resolution sponsored by WHO director Dr. Halfdan Mahler stressed the need for immediate action to eradicate the last known region in which the disease is still a threat...