East Africa: Financial Problems Affect Region's Fight Against Malaria

Insufficient funding is one of the major challenges in treating malaria in East Africa, a new report by the World Health Organisation says.The World Malaria Report 2016 states that, between 2013 and 2015, East Africa spent as little as $4 for each person at risk of getting malaria.

This year, the region has received $150 million in funding from the US government for the implementation of malaria prevention programmes.The report comes at a time when Burundi has declared a malaria epidemic after 800 people died in less than four months.

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