[afro-nets] AFRO-NETS is about malaria

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AFRO-NETS is about malaria
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The fact that you would all sooner debate some inane comments
made about American Fundamentalism than any of the topics that
are tabled here is astonishing to me.

Can you please set up another list serve to carefully pore over
how horrible either Christians or the people who run Netzkraft
and started this exchange are. This one is intended for discus-
sions about treating and preventing malaria.

Thank you,
Philip Coticelli
mailto:pcoticelli@gmail.com

[From the Moderator: Sorry for coming in again, but AFRO-NETS is
"not about Malaria" alone. If you go to our web site at:
http://www.afronets.org you will find the purpose of AFRO-NETS
described as follows:

"The electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health
Research & Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to
facilitate exchange of information among different networks ac-
tive in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa,
and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity build-
ing, planning, and research.

Topics for discussion include:
* Advocacy for health research & development
* Priority setting
* Capacity building
* Resource mobilisation
* Evaluation
* Dissemination of results
* Utilisation of research findings
* Networking
* Use of Information Technology for the health sector
* Announcement of meetings, training courses and other events of
   interest to our subscribers
* HIV-AIDS issues"

This is a guideline and doesn't exclude topics that are contro-
versial but health related like the one we just closed. D.N.
Mod.]

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Great! So everybody, please bring all your gripes to the table
about world religions. We don't need much stimulating debate
about malaria control.

Any chance, moderator, you might step in to tag constructive
emails specifically about malaria and encourage such lively con-
versation?

I find this truly fascinating.

Respectfully,
Philip Coticelli
mailto:pcoticelli@gmail.com

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Obviously this is not the place to "bring all your gripes to the
table about world religions". But sometimes the social, reli-
gious, and "moralistic" context is relevant to the topics that
bring us all together, particularly in light of the mission
statement of this list that the moderator just provided. If you
deem a particular topic to be uninteresting, it is easy enough
to hit the delete function. Sometimes it is important to broaden
the discussion.

--
Jonathan D. Mayer, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Geography
Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases),
Family Medicine, and Health Services
University of Washington
Box 353550, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Tel +1-206-543-7110
Fax +1-206-543-3313
mailto:jmayer@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/jmayer

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Are there no problems in Africa barring HIV and Malaria?

Manjula Datta
mailto:manjulad@yahoo.com

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Global Vote on Education for All - Free or Low Cost?
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Hi everyone,

As you may know, I have been gathering information as well as
reviewing available literature about the global goal towards
education, with a 2015 mark placed on this goal in the MDG. This
is an ambitious goal, which does not seem feasible in many parts
of the world, owing a number of factors.

I have been sampling opinions on which works, Free Education for
All or low cost quality education for all. It is my thinking
that low cost access will create space for sustainability, where
as free education undermines the education in many countries.
The cause of this is two fold. One is because, most developing
countries do not have the resources to completely fund educa-
tion, and are still battling with issues related to teachers
salaries, stationery and infrastructure. EFA for free will make
these economies more vulnerable, and many governments have not
considered education a priority enough to make this level of
sacrifice. Free education seems to further undermine the quality
of education service delivery in many third world countries.

While the argument I have put forth could be true, the responses
I have seen and evidence from available show result in similar
lines and those in favour of free education for all. These peo-
ple believe that education is a major issue that governments
should pay any amount of sacrifice to receive. Another group has
argued that the investment in Education has more benefits than
any other kind of investment that can be made by any country. I
will make a summary of these findings and send to this group by
the end of April.

As a step forward, and a final step in this effort, we will be
conducting a global vote on Free or low paid education for all,
and the basis will form a final report which I hope to present
to UNESCO. I will be glad to learn ideas from this group, which
model will work and why. Education for all is imperative, but we
need to figure out what works.

If you are not currently subscribed to Development Partnership,
please send a blank e-mail to:
developmentpartnership-subscribe@yahoogroups.com for ongoing
discussions on this subject throughout January 2006. Kindly for-
ward this message across your networks.

Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima
Director, Development Partnership International
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Fax: +234-84-751-002
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Co-Founder, Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
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http://www.youthaidscoalition.org dabe