World Bank cause to collaps fight with malaria

World Bank accused of fraud and waste resources on unnecessary drugs, the programme to combat malaria.

The magazine "Lancet" argues that the bank podtasoval data to its projects to combat malaria looked successful, but it has not fulfilled promises to invest 300-500 million dollars in Africa.

According to the magazine, the World Bank financed outdated drugs, despite the objections of experts.

The World Bank denied the charges, saying that in the next five years is going to invest in the fight against malaria from 500 million 1 billion dollars.

However, the bank management recognizes that it is very difficult, and sometimes even impossible "to find out exactly how many funds to a donor spent on specific activities.

Blaming the bank made 13 international experts in the field of health led by Amir Attaranom from the University of Ottawa in Canada. Mainly they relate to the data bank promises in the fight against malaria in Africa and in India.

Indifference

Researchers blamed the World Bank for failure to change the historical indifferent attitude towards the fight against malaria, as well as trying to enlarge its expenditure to finance the fight against the disease in Africa.

The "Lancet" emphasizes the bank promise to Africa 300-500 million dollars to fight malaria.

Then, say the authors, the bank took his words back, because, according to reports, on measures to combat malaria in 2000-2005 worldwide bank planned to allocate only 100-150 million dollars.

In response to the accusation Bank representative Jean-Louis Sarbib said that between the years 2006-2008 to spend on malaria in Africa and Asia 500 million dollars.

The "Lancet" also said that the World Bank podtasoval in profitable for themselves the results of the programme to combat malaria in India.

The authors have data bank, which, the number of deaths from malaria in some parts of India, reportedly declined sharply: in Gujarat by 58%, in Maharashtra, 98% in Rajasthan by 79%.

The authors of the journal began to doubt that such success has been achieved in such a short time, and asked for official statistics national measures against malaria Indian authorities.

Chloroquine for India

Researchers also claim that "secrecy, which the bank covers its activities, and technical errors have become dangerous combination when it comes to drugs against malaria."

"Our investigation suggests that the Bank has donated funds to potrtil useless drugs," says Amir Attaran

Bank accused of being supplied to India Anti drug chloroquine in the amount of 1.8 million dollars, while the drug is not widespread in India to the type of malaria, as reflected in the recommendations of the World Health Organization.

However, the bank said that chloroquine was intended only for those areas where it is effective and delivered to the country and other drugs.

Dr. Attaran and his colleagues called on the World Bank to allocate 1 billion dollars to be spent on anti-malaria worldwide, a separate structure, noting that the Bank's role should be only for money.

However, the bank responded as follows: "The President of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz fully supported the desire of the bank to participate in the fight against malaria and to achieve significant results."

The "Lancet" that malaria is the cause of 10% of diseases in Africa, resulting in an annual loss of $ 12 billion dollars.

It was found that the number of deaths from malaria in the same period (2002-2003 d.) in the three states increased.

However, according to the World Bank, the "Lancet" used "combined statistics at the state level, which did not show the full picture."

Drugs for shop-dependence

Doctors have set a new medicine to those suffering from addiction to waste money on buying "shop-dependence". Medicines originally intended for suffering depression.

Shop like many. However, according to doctors, one in five of us Later became of the lessons that need treatment.

More and more people, especially women, advantages in debt. Now all the easier to take the money borrowed. We are increasingly following the fashion, and away by the growing influence of advertising.

Doctors in the United States began to set drug ultram online pharmacys Cipramil those who can not stay and continue to make purchases, despite its growing debt.

Cipramil - antidepressant, from the same group of drugs that Prozac and popular.

A study walmart pharmacy conducted at Stanford University Medical School in the United States, over 21 women found that Cipramil well help from "shop-dependence".

Dr. Robert Lefever, director of the centre Promis in the county of Kent in southeast England. Center be specialize to help people with all sorts of mania.

He believes that addiction to waste money on buying a canadian pharmacy problem no less serious than alcohol or recreational gambling, and could lead to at least a serious problem, particularly to the huge debt.

Medicines for HIV pregnant

A study of nearly two thousand women in West Africa, has confirmed that the medicines human immunodeficiency virus help prevent the transmission of the virus from pregnant woman her child.

However, the researchers also found that in the future, many children are infected in the process of breastfeeding.

Scientists have concluded that HIV-positive mothers should continue treatment in the first months of life to their children.

A survey published two days after the South African highest court ruled that the government must provide pregnant women with HIV drugs.

An estimated one in nine South African resident infected with HIV.
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Fake drugs kill

Scientists beat alarm and called for urgent action at the international level to end the sale of counterfeit medicines.

In a scientific journal published an article, which highlights the serious risks because of forgery issued for these medicines. The most widespread problem was in developing countries.
Article in the British medical journal entitled "fake drugs, guns kill." The team of scientists from various countries, which is led by Paul Newman of the University of Oxford, blames criminal organizations in the death of many people who counterfeit medicines.

Among the examples cited by eye drops are false, "vaccine" against meningitis, facing an easy tap water and "contraception", made from wheat flour.

All these "medicines" manufactured in clandestine laboratories.

Five Asian countries, researchers found numerous cases of trafficking in counterfeit drugs.

"A third of the samples drug against malaria, we have acquired in Southeast Asia were false and did not contain any traces of chemicals that should have been part of medicine," says Neuman.

Lucrative business

The World Health Organization believes that forgery is approximately the 10th of the drugs sold worldwide. Paul Newman and his colleagues propose to the WHO to discuss the issue at the forthcoming conference in September.

According to Lambert Rago, WHO Representative, scientists do not exaggerate the extent of the danger:
"Counterfeit drugs kill people. Here comes the many reports that the vaccine does not contain any therapeutic components, therefore, the vaccination did not occur, "says Rago.

The production of counterfeit medicines has become a lucrative illegal businesses are international in scope. According to Rago, often counterfeits are produced in large numbers in one country and sold in another.

WHO has appealed to various pharmacological Association and customs authorities to join efforts in the fight against trafficking in counterfeit medicines.

Curative properties of herbs under suspicion

American scientists found that the treatment of choice properties in recent medicines made from the resin of Indian plants guggula heavily priukrasheny.

Previously, it was thought that guggul could significantly lower concentrations of cholesterol in the human body. It is known that cholesterol is responsible for many cardiovascular diseases.

However, drugs made by guggula used in India since ancient times, no tests were conducted at a university of Pennsylvania.

Doctors identified 103 volunteers and divided them into three groups. The first group of test given pills containing 1 gram of resin extract guggula, three times a day. In the second dose group was double, and third of patients received sham pills.

Better self-medication

Two months doctors found that in the first and second group of volunteers cholesterol levels did not fall, but increased by 4% and 5% respectively.

Amazing was the fact that the third group, which received a sham drug test (but did not do so), the average cholesterol level decreased by 5%.

In the experiment, and found one additional side effects drugs. Some volunteers during a guggula appeared skin irritation.

Researchers believe that the results of their work once again shows that medicinal herbs and products made from them should undergo more thorough review before come to the store shelves.

"Vitamins and herbal medicines on the basis must be seriously studied as to their safety and effectiveness," says study leader Philip Zapari.

It should be noted that previous tests guggula held in India and the United States pointed to the miraculous properties of plants. In India, was published, which stated that the admission extract guggula 24 weeks reduces cholesterol content in human blood by 12%.

In the United States earlier this year was published, alleging that guggul help people suffering from osteoporosis and relieve pain syndrome.

Heart drugs against HIV

They found that the speed of propagation of the virus in the body of patients slowing. Once patients perestavali medication, the number of agents increased HIV

In the Journal of Experimental Medicine, doctors are saying that drugs designed to combat high cholesterol in the blood may be on the means available to fight the disease. Statiny are millions of people around the world and they are usually cheaper drugs to combat HIV.

Research has been Professor Gustavo Del Real and his colleagues from the Spanish Council for Scientific Research. They say that these drugs are likely to prevent the virus infect healthy cells in the body. The virus can not penetrate through the membrane of healthy cells, has already infected a cell to escape, he can not.

The ensuing experiments on mice showed that statiny can slow the spread of the disease.

Additional studies

Doctors say that the first tests on a small group of patients most promise. "Our results indicate that cardiac drugs from the group can be very suitable antiviral drugs for more accessible AIDS treatment," write Del Real and his colleagues.

They specify that a certain findings required further study. Data show that statiny can stop the spread of the HIV virus sub-1 for the chronically sick. The results suggest the need for studies of new antiviral drugs as these, "says the article.

Recent studies also show that statiny can help in the fight against other diseases, from Alzheimer's to cancer.

The British government has recently liberalized trade in drugs of this type. Now they can be bought at pharmacies without a prescription. Professor Brian Gazzard, director of programs for the Study of HIV in a London hospital of the regional National Health System said that news of interest from Spain.

"Statiny really prevent HIV to enter the cell," he says. - Does this make the conclusion that they may become drug against HIV / AIDS, yet unclear. But these very interesting. "

Brazil to rise in arms for pharmacists

Brazilian Health Minister Humberto Costa said that the cost of drugs "Kaletra" is so high that is the risk to public health.

The authorities gave the American company Abbott Laboratories, which manufactures the drug, 10 days to either reduce prices or allow Brazil to make cheap version.

Representatives of Abbott Laboratories said that if Brazil would fulfil its threat, in the long run, the loser will remain patient.

According to Humberto Costa, if Abbott did not agree with the government, Brazil will produce a copy of the drug in the state laboratory in Rio de Janeiro.

The American company says that, and so sells "Kaletru in Brazil them at a loss, but said that" is ready to cooperate with the government in finding a mutually beneficial agreement. "

According to the Ministry of Health of Brazil, a country with 183 millionth 600,000 people have HIV or AIDS.

Brazilian authorities deserve praise of the international community for having distributed free of charge to all in need of antiretroviral drugs.

According to Brazilian law, the government has the right to violate patents on the production of drugs, if it believes that it is the interest of the nation.