Africa: UN-Backed Partnership Sets Ambitious Funding Targets to Combat Malaria

23 April 2007

Just ahead of Africa Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April, the United Nations-backed Roll Back Malaria Partnership today announced that it has set ambitious new targets to attain funding to fight the disease in Africa.

The group hopes that half of all malaria grant applications worldwide and 80 per cent in African countries, where over 90 per cent of the 1 million global malaria deaths yearly occur, receive the necessary funding.

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