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Fight against malaria slows

Global efforts to curb malaria are stalling after a drop in funds to buy bed nets, according to the latest report Wednesday from the World Health Organization

The Jakarta Post
Britain
Thu, December 12, 2013

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Fight against malaria slows

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lobal efforts to curb malaria are stalling after a dropin funds to buy bed nets, according to the latest report Wednesday from theWorld Health Organization.

For the second year in a row, WHO noted a dramatic decline in the number of bed nets given out to protect people from the mosquitoes that spread malaria. In 2010, 145 million bed nets were distributed; that fell to 92 million in 2011 and 70 million last year.

'€œVictory over this ancient foe is still a long way off,'€ WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan wrote in the report. WHO says it has less than half of the $5.1 billion it needs for its malaria efforts.

Last month, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a leading international donor, temporarily stopped buying bed nets from the two top manufacturers after a corruption scandal.

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