As a broadly-based coalition of international actors presses ahead with an unprecedented drive against malaria, scientists and health workers are hopeful that significant progress can be made in the battle to eradicate one of the globe’s biggest killers.
On this page, AllAfrica brings you coverage for World Malaria Day 2009.
World Malaria Day: Bed Nets for the DRC
With the Global Malaria Action Plan committed to fighting the disease worldwide, the issue is not so much whether eradication can be achieved but how it might best be accomplished.
AllAfrica speaks to Elizabeth Gore, director of Nothing But Nets, about how her successful campaign came about.
(left) Malaria claims about 180,000 deaths per year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most of them children.
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