Malaria: African kids 10 times more prone to death – Mrs. Akufo-Addo

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• OMAN BAPA 11 years ago

  GHANA SALUTE YOU,MO MO MO,GOOD ENGLISH,GOD BLESS YOU OUR MOTHER REBECCA,AS MOTHER THERESA,YOUR GOOD

  GHANA SALUTE YOU,MO MO MO,GOOD ENGLISH,GOD BLESS YOU OUR MOTHER REBECCA,AS MOTHER THERESA,YOUR GOOD

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• GOD IS GOOD 11 years ago

  THE HREAT MOTHER,GHANA LOVE YOU,THANK YOU

  THE HREAT MOTHER,GHANA LOVE YOU,THANK YOU

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• JACK 11 years ago

  What's new about what Mrs. Akufo-Addo is saying? Is that news at all?

  What's new about what Mrs. Akufo-Addo is saying? Is that news at all?

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• Bishop Nana Addo 11 years ago

  What u know abt Gh??

  What u know abt Gh??

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• NANA K 11 years ago

  WHAT IS NEW? WHAT DO YOU KNOW? HOW MANY FIRST LADIES HAS ONE COUNTRY GHANA? ALL THAT YOU WANT IS TO BECOME THE FIRST LADY. DO YOU HAVE ANY INKLING OF HOW TO GOVERN A COUNTRY AT ALL? ANOTHER PLUNGE OF THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY. SH ...
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  WHAT IS NEW? WHAT DO YOU KNOW? HOW MANY FIRST LADIES HAS ONE COUNTRY GHANA? ALL THAT YOU WANT IS TO BECOME THE FIRST LADY. DO YOU HAVE ANY INKLING OF HOW TO GOVERN A COUNTRY AT ALL? ANOTHER PLUNGE OF THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY. SHAME ON TO YOU AND YOUR GOOD FOR NOTHING HUSBAND. GHANAIANS DONT WANT YOU.

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• Truth Speaker 11 years ago

  She is busy preparing for first lady position, just as her all die be die certificateless lawyer is trying to be president at all cost.

  She is busy preparing for first lady position, just as her all die be die certificateless lawyer is trying to be president at all cost.

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• Tekonline.org 11 years ago

  This is an entirely new strategy for killing the parasite.
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  Promising compound rapidly eliminates malaria parasite
  Date:
  December 5, 2014
  Source:
  St. J ...
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  This is an entirely new strategy for killing the parasite.
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  Promising compound rapidly eliminates malaria parasite
  Date:
  December 5, 2014
  Source:
  St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  
  
  An international research collaborative has determined that a promising anti-malarial compound tricks the immune system to rapidly destroy red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite but leave healthy cells unharmed.
  
  St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists led the study, which appears in the current online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
  
  The compound, (+)-SJ733, was developed from a molecule identified in a previous St. Jude-led study that helped to jumpstart worldwide anti-malarial drug development efforts.
  
  Malaria is caused by a parasite spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. The disease remains a major health threat to more than half the world's population, particularly children. The World Health Organization estimates that in Africa a child dies of malaria every minute.
  
  In this study, researchers determined that (+)-SJ733 uses a novel mechanism to kill the parasite by recruiting the immune system to eliminate malaria-infected red blood cells. In a mouse model of malaria, a single dose of (+)-SJ733 killed 80 percent of malaria parasites within 24 hours. After 48 hours the parasite was undetectable.
  
  Planning has begun for safety trials of the compound in healthy adults.
  Laboratory evidence suggests that the compound's speed and mode of action work together to slow and suppress development of drug-resistant parasites.
  Drug resistance has long undermined efforts to treat and block malaria transmission.
  "Our goal is to develop an affordable, fast-acting combination therapy that cures malaria with a single dose," said corresponding author R. Kiplin Guy, Ph.D., chair of the St. Jude Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics. "These results indicate that SJ733 and other compounds that act in a similar fashion are highly attractive additions to the global malaria eradication campaign, which would mean so much for the world's children, who are central to the mission of St. Jude."

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