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Title: Global malaria battle stalls as financing gets tight
Post by: riky on December 18, 2012, 09:03:55 AM
Global malaria battle stalls as financing gets tight

LONDON (Reuters) - Global funding for the fight against malaria has stalled in the past two years, threatening to reverse what the World Health Organisation (WHO) says are "remarkable recent gains" in the battle to control one of the world's leading infectious killers. After rapid expansion between 2004 and 2009, funding for malaria prevention and control leveled off between 2010 and 2012 - meaning there were fewer life-saving steps taken in hard- hit malarial regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. ...

Source: Global malaria battle stalls as financing gets tight (http://news.yahoo.com/global-malaria-battle-stalls-financing-gets-tight-134146274.html)