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Combating Malaria: What More Can We Do Now?
April 22, 2008
Encouraging progress against malaria was made in the Americas and some parts of Asia in the last century, but the first global campaign to stop malaria didn’t succeed. In fact, investments in malaria research and treatment waned and the disease resurged in the impoverished communities of sub-Saharan Africa. Today there are nearly 1 million malaria deaths per year, mostly of children, and between 300 million and 500 million cases of this debilitating disease. Experts, advocates, and communities have renewed efforts to stop malaria, but what will it take to ensure that the global health community is able to sustain the effort to stop malaria this time around?
This is the first of two special PRB Discuss Online sessions to commemorate World Malaria Day, April 25, and the ongoing fight against malaria. On April 22, Dr. Nicole Bates, the Global Health Council’s director of government relations responded to questions on the important issues surrounding the efforts to fight malaria.
© 2008 Population Reference Bureau
For full transcript, visit:
http://discuss.prb.org/content/interview/detail/2231/
category: Global Health Council News : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 9 April 2008
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