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Senator Wicker and Senator Coons to Co-Chair the Senate Working Group On Malaria
Great news from the Senate earlier this month. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) announced that they will co-chair a bipartisan Senate Working Group on Malaria to raise Congressional awareness of U.S. efforts to stem the tide of malaria across the globe.
Read more about the Senate Working Group here...
A Fresh Look for International Engagement
Mark Green, Senior Director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and Senior Advisor to the Malaria No More Policy Center, authored an op-ed in The Hill about reforms underway to balance the need for critical investments in our International Affairs Budget with the importance of fiscal responsibility and accountability. Green explains why allowing these reforms the opportunity and resources to succeed is the smart thing to do for the United States.
Read the op-ed here...
Former First Lady Laura Bush Pleads With Republicans Not to Cut Foreign Aid
 Former First Lady, Laura Bush, said that she will lobby Republicans to protect the U.S. government's investment in foreign assistance. She argued that cutting funding for these programs will undermine national security, the economy and America's moral standing.
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Scientists Make Transgenic Fungus To Fight Malaria
 Scientists from Britain and the United States inserted the genes of human antibodies or scorpion toxins into a fungus called Metarhizium anisopliae that infects mosquitoes. They found that certain combinations of them were able to stop the development of malaria-causing parasites in the mosquitoes.
Learn more here...
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