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Talking about fostering independence instead of fighting Malaria is absurd. Malaria is a chronic diseased devastating to the productivity of affected individual

Talking about fostering independence instead of fighting Malaria is absurd. Malaria is a chronic diseased devastating to the productivity of affected individuals, and jeopardises their ability to make a living. Farming and homesteading sounds nice, but is hard when you're regularly unable to work because of yet another a Malaria relaplse.

dogma1138 12y ago
You've taken 2 completely unrelated issues and mixed them into a straw man. That said the fight against malaria is proving to be counter productive, all we got so far is that every strain of malaria is now resistant to all malaria medications but one. Malaria is also not a chronic disease(although we made it now due to drug resistant strains). The only relapse you can have is either due to poor treatment(which again goes back to having limited to no healthcare infrastructure) to reinfection which again is a sanitary issue. Turning marshes into fields, stable water and sewage infrastructure, sanitary life stock control all help fight Malaria, and are probably more important in the eradication of it than just dumping more and more meds which are not properly distributed in the first place.
- hueving 12y ago
  >You've taken 2 completely unrelated issues and mixed them into a straw man You are the one that put these issues together in the grandparent thread in the first place.
  - dogma1138 12y ago
    Please read it again the fact that i had apples and oranges in a thread doesn't mean you should compare them. It was 2 examples of how western intervention builds reliance rather than self sufficiency in Africa. By no means i said we should fund local homesteads instead of malaria drugs. I said that funding local farming might be better than funding high tech crop projects, and improving local medical services and sanitary conditions might be better than just throwing more doctors without borders at it with out thinking of the bigger pictures...
  - dogma1138 12y ago
    Please read it again the fact that i had apples and oranges in a thread doesn't mean you should compare them. It was 2 examples of how western intervention builds reliance rather than self sufficiency in Africa. By no means i said we should fund local homesteads instead of malaria drugs. I said that funding local farming might be better than funding high tech crop projects, and improving local medical services and sanitary conditions might be better than just throwing more doctors without borders at it with out thinking of the bigger pictures...

dogma1138 12y ago

You've taken 2 completely unrelated issues and mixed them into a straw man. That said the fight against malaria is proving to be counter productive, all we got so far is that every strain of malaria is now resistant to all malaria medications but one. Malaria is also not a chronic disease(although we made it now due to drug resistant strains). The only relapse you can have is either due to poor treatment(which again goes back to having limited to no healthcare infrastructure) to reinfection which again is a sanitary issue. Turning marshes into fields, stable water and sewage infrastructure, sanitary life stock control all help fight Malaria, and are probably more important in the eradication of it than just dumping more and more meds which are not properly distributed in the first place.

hueving 12y ago
>You've taken 2 completely unrelated issues and mixed them into a straw man You are the one that put these issues together in the grandparent thread in the first place.
- dogma1138 12y ago
  Please read it again the fact that i had apples and oranges in a thread doesn't mean you should compare them. It was 2 examples of how western intervention builds reliance rather than self sufficiency in Africa. By no means i said we should fund local homesteads instead of malaria drugs. I said that funding local farming might be better than funding high tech crop projects, and improving local medical services and sanitary conditions might be better than just throwing more doctors without borders at it with out thinking of the bigger pictures...
- dogma1138 12y ago
  Please read it again the fact that i had apples and oranges in a thread doesn't mean you should compare them. It was 2 examples of how western intervention builds reliance rather than self sufficiency in Africa. By no means i said we should fund local homesteads instead of malaria drugs. I said that funding local farming might be better than funding high tech crop projects, and improving local medical services and sanitary conditions might be better than just throwing more doctors without borders at it with out thinking of the bigger pictures...