Fighting Malaria, Brain Cancer and TB
09/02/2013
A laborer sleeps under a mosquito net on a hot summer morning in New Delhi
Welcome to As It Is, from VOA Learning English.
I’m Christopher Cruise.
Today, we’ll report the latest news in the fight against three deadly enemies: malaria, brain cancer and tuberculosis.
Jeri Watson tells us about the development of a new drug that fights malaria quickly and inexpensively.
And I’ll tell you about how stem cells taken from a person’s body fat may one day be used to fight brain cancer.
But first, we report on a campaign for money to fight the world’s second-deadliest infectious disease.
Some forms of tuberculosis are resistant to drug treatments. Health experts say these strains of tuberculosis -- TB -- present a major threat and could spread widely.
The World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are seeking help in the fight against TB. Mario Ritter reports.
The number of new tuberculosis cases has gone down every year since 2006. And the number of TB-related deaths is expected to reach a 50 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2015. Yet the World Health Organization says there were almost nine million new cases of TB and 1.4 million deaths from the disease in 2011.
Mario Raviglione is director of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB department. He is happy with a two percent decline in the number of new infections every year. But he says the progress is still too slow.
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