City's new battle on malaria.LIVERPOOL tropical health experts are helping to deliver a pounds 150m project to try to stamp outmalaria in Africa. The disease kills at least one million children under five in sub-Saharan Africa every year Now the School of Tropical Medicine The School of Tropical Medicine was established in 1921 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. Its establishment, was due to the results of a government initiative as well as private efforts, and was an important landmark in the development and research in tropical medicine in is to play a key role in a new five-year programme Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health, the consultancy armof the school, is a partner in the Indoor Residual Spraying initiative. IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. involves applying insecticides insecticides, chemical, biological, or other agents used to destroy insect pests; the term commonly refers to chemical agents only. Chemical Insecticides to indoor surfaces of a house to killmalaria- carrying mosquitoes The scheme is being run as part of the President's Malaria Initiative, a US government-led $1.2billion initiative to control malaria in Africa Initial focus will be in Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Rwanda and Uganda |
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