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N'Dour Says 'War on Malaria' is the One US Should Wage
November 23, 2007 at 6:53 PM
General Health News
On a US tour, the Senegalese superstar, who played at the Kennedy Center here Monday, takes time out to throw the spotlight over to malaria, which in Africa alone kills almost a million children a year.
The world music sensation is in North America through December 10 with stops in Philadelphia, New York, Montreal, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Michigan and Colorado.
N'Dour, who has been a Unicef goodwill ambassador since 2004, also has been a committed campaigner against malaria.
He works with the Global Fund to fight Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis to fight the illness which saps 40 percent of the spending of hard-hit countries, particularly those in Africa.
Every year, malaria costs developing countries 12 billion dollars in lost productivity. The Global Fund is bankrolled by about 30 countries and the Gates Foundation.
"The problem with malaria, is that many Africans, even among the leaders, don't take the problem seriously. We have done some educational work that now is starting to bear fruit," N'Dour told AFP after a White House meeting with aides to First Lady Laura Bush, who works on the US campaign against malaria.
"We needed a voice of some authority to say, 'OK, I live in Africa and I am affected, I am taking part in the debate,'" explained N'Dour who has always lived in his hometown of Dakar.
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