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The United Nations envoy to Liberia has called for an end to violence against women, stressing the importance of security.
Special Representative of the Secretary-General Alan Doss remarked yesterday, "It does not matter where you are in Liberia, your security is important. River Gee County may be a long way from Monrovia but you are not forgotten."
November 12, 2008
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Six weeks before his election on November 4, President-elect Barack Obama made a promise to the one million people around the world who die from Malaria each year. "When I am President," he said, "We will set the goal of ending all deaths from Malaria by 2015. The United States will lead."
This may sound like a typical grandiose promise made by a candidate seeking election. But to those in the public health community it offered validation that ending Malaria deaths is not some pie in the sky dream--but a goal that can be achieved in the here and now. Following through on this commitment, however, means that the fight against Malaria must be taken to where the disease is most destructive and most difficult to contain: refugee camps in Africa.
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