Nairobi — Malaria continues to be one of the world's deadliest diseases, infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000 - mostly African - children annually, according to the UN World Health Organization.
Prevention, including indoor spraying and insecticide-treated mosquito nets, and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has seen malaria mortality drop by more than 25 percent globally since 2000.
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