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Ghana: Malaria Deaths in Children Reduce By Half
Jan 24, 2007
by Richard Attenkah
DR. (MRS.) Constance Bart-Plange, Programme Manager of the National Malaria Control Programme Ghana, has disclosed that malaria deaths in children in the country has reduced by half between 2003 and the end of 2006.
This, according to her, is as a result of the massive financial support Ghana has received from Global Fund (GF), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) set up in 2002 by a G8 and United Nations (UN) collaboration to provide additional financial support to fight three deadly diseases, namely Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB, that have been the major causes of death in the country and other parts of the world.
According to her, the country has so far received a total of US$56 million over the period from the GF, which they used in all the departments in the control of the above diseases.
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contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 24 January 2007
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