Anti-malaria outreach efforts in rural Nigeria
reach nomadic villages deep in the bush, providing insecticide-treated nets, as
well as treatment to pregnant women.
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60 per cent since 2000, but
the ancient killer remains an acute public health problem with 15 countries
mainly in sub-Saharan Africa accounting for some 80 per cent of cases and
deaths globally, according to a new United Nations report released today.
“Global malaria control is one of the great
public health success stories of the past 15 years,” said Dr. Margaret Chan,
Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO). “It’s a sign that
our strategies are on target, and that we can beat this ancient killer, which
still claims hundreds of thousands of lives, mostly children, each year.”
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