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Country Profile: Madagascar |
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| Title: |
Biodiversity's Contribution to Medicine |
| Resource Type: |
Report |
| Resource Language(s): |
Anglais |
| Author: |
World Resources Institute |
| Abstract: |
Biodiversity's Contribution to Medicine address the fact that "About 80 percent of people in developing countries still rely on traditional medicine--based largely on species of plants and animals--for their primary health
care. In the United States, some 25 percent of prescriptions are filled with drugs whose active ingredients are extracted or derived from plants. Sales of
these plant-based drugs in the U.S. amounted to some $4.5 billion in 1980 and an estimated $15.5 billion in 1990. Other drugs are derived from animals
and microorganisms." This summary statement describes two drugs derived from the rosy periwinkle: (1) vinblastine (used in the treatment of Hodgkins' disease) and (2) vincristine (used in the treatment of leukemia). |
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| Title: |
Combatting Polio in Madagascar |
| Resource Type: |
Article |
| Resource Language(s): |
Anglais |
| Author: |
United States Agency for International Development |
| Abstract: |
This Report describes U.S. public and private efforts in
Madagascar which helped achieve 99% coverage in first Polio
Eradication Campaign. |
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| Title: |
Smaller, Healthier Families |
| Resource Type: |
Report |
| Resource Language(s): |
Anglais |
| Author: |
United States Agency for International Development |
| Abstract: |
United States Agency for International Development's Country
Strategic Plan for fiscal years 1998 - 2002 includes # 2:
Smaller, Healthier Families. The problem statement is presented as: "Despite improvements in a number of health indices in recent years, Madagascar continues to face serious health sector problems
with substantial implications for its economic and environmental well-being. Madagascar's current population of 13.9 million will
double in less than 25 years if the current annual growth rate of 2.8% is not slowed. Nearly one in six of these children will not live
to see his fifth birthday. Nearly a million children are chronically malnourished, well over half of the under-five age group. Recent
studies indicate that 45% of Malagasy women currently have a sexually transmitted infection (STI), a frightening statistic in a
country where AIDS has arrived but not yet gained a strong foothold." |
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