allAfrica.com
18 September 2005
After a global eradication programme eliminated or greatly reduced malaria in most of the world by 1969, the disease was largely overlooked in international development planning. Today, more than 90 per cent of the world's malaria burden is in Africa, with children and pregnant women the major sufferers. In 1998, the Roll Back Malaria initiative was launched by a coalition of international ...
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