DDT--Weapon of Mass Survival

Click on the title above to read an opinion piece about a change in policy on the use of DDT to combat malaria in subSaharan Africa . We see the terrible effects of malaria regularly here. Our Zambian friends are often miserably ill for days. One man who worked for us lost a three-year-old son to malaria. We missionaries have a healthy fear of contracting the disease and take preventives with serious possible side effects to avoid it. Let's hope that the new steps proposed by USAID will ease the death and difficulty malaria brings to this part of the world.