Africa: Global Burden of Malaria Enormous - WHO

21 September 2008

As the World Health Organisation WHO continues to break new grounds in finding a lasting solution to the malaria scourge, a lot still needs to be done, so says a recent report.

The WHO report, released yesterday by WHO, says the global burden of malaria remains enormous, noting that access to malaria control interventions, especially bed nets in Africa, increased sharply between 2004 and 2006.

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