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WHO: Malaria fight stalling at ‘unacceptably high level’ of deaths | Malay Mail

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LONDON, Dec 4 — Malaria still infects millions of people every year and kills more than 400,000 — mostly children in Africa — because the fight against the mosquito-borne disease has stalled, the World Health Organisation said today. Funding for the global battle against malaria — which...

Wednesday, 04 Dec 2019 07:00 PM MYT

Funding for the global battle against malaria — which kills a child every 2 minutes — is broadly flat, the WHO warned, and because of ongoing transmission via mosquitoes, half the world’s population is still at risk of contracting the disease. The WHO’s report found that pregnant women and children in Africa continue to bear the brunt of the malaria epidemic.

 

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