Group+5.4

=Mac and Tyler's 5.4 Research on Africa Fighting Malaria=

=__Research on Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM)__= ===Our organization is AFM or Africa Fighting Malaria. They are an organization that helps sub-Saharan countries or any countries south of the Sahara Desert. Africa Fighting Malaria is a non-profit health advocacy group whose headquarters are stationed the United States and also South Africa. Their mission is to make the fight against malaria more responsive when using nets and vaccines and other ways to fight the disease. They perform research into the various aspects of malaria and to raise the awareness of the disease. AFM also brings the issues of the disease and control of malaria in the African and worldwide media. In its nine years in operation Africa Fighting Malaria has helped transform malaria control. Since AFM is a non-profit organization it has to have donors. Some of those donors are United Nations Children's Fund, Global Fund To Fight TB, Malaria, and AIDS, and the World Health Organization.===

===Africa Fighting Malaria has a lot of campaigns that it works on. It has campaigned successfully alongside Malaria Foundation International since 2000 for improved malaria control in Africa. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Africa Fighting Malaria have worked together to promote the Kill Malaria Mosquitoes Now Declaration which supports the use of DDT in malaria control. Many campaigns have been created in recent years to purchase and distribute Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets which can be very effective against malaria if used the right way and together with other types of malaria resistance.===

===To fight malaria you have to know what causes it. The parasite Plasmodium causes malaria, the parasite is transmitted only by the female mosquito. If treated early, quickly, and efficiently malaria is a curable disease. It is also a preventable and infectious disease. More than 1 million of the 300-500 million cases of malaria each year in Africa result in deaths. Malaria is the predominant cause for deaths for children under five years old living in sub-Saharan Africa. It is also the number one cause of deaths for pregnant mothers and their unborn babies. The disease malaria alone costs the continent of Africa in total about $12 billion in lost productivity each year.===

=__Research on Uganda__= Uganda is a small country on the eastern side of Africa. It's located underneath Sudan and to **t**he left of Kenya. It's a country that's been destroyed by civil war. There is **are** child soldiers that help fight in the war. There are two sides to the war, the rebels and the federal army. Their economy mostly relies on farming. The majority of the population relies on subsistence farming to live. They have a president just like us and his name is Yoweri Museveni. He is the head of the state and of the government. Kids start to go to school at age six and attend primary school for seven years.About 40% of these children go onto secondary school ordinary level and then some go onto the advanced level. The government pays for 4 of the biological kids in each family to go to school.
 * ===Uganda=== ||
 * Population of 2008 || 30,300,000 and growing about 3.6% annually ||
 * Per Capita GDP || $1,100 ||
 * Main Exports || Coffee, fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, and gold ||
 * Main Imports || Capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, and medical supplies ||
 * Resources || Copper, iron-ore, cobalt, limestone, and cash crops ||
 * Main Ethnic group and Relegion || Most Ugandans are Christian. Catholics and Protestants make up the largest denominations. ||
 * Unemployment Rate || N/A ||
 * Infant Mortality Rate || 66 deaths per every 1,000 births ||
 * Life Expectancy Rate || 52 years ||
 * Literacy Rate || 67% of people over 15 years old ||
 * Human Development Index (HDI) || 0.505 ||



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