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Global malaria efforts: Progress made, but challenges loom ahead

4/25/2014

 
‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria,’ the theme of World Malaria Day 2013,1 still struck a chord with the outgoing WHO Global Malaria Program Director, Dr Robert Newman, during the release of the latest World Malaria Report on 11 December 20132 in Washington D.C. Dr Newman stated that ‘the greatest threat to continued success in malaria efforts is financial,’ as the community had less than half of the US$5.1 billion needed annually to ensure universal access to life-saving malaria interventions, including long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), indoor residual spraying of households with insecticide (IRS), intermittent preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women (IPTp), rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and arteminisin combination therapies (ACTs).  [Read More] 


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