Malaria battle given $3bn boost
“World leaders and philanthropists have pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria at a summit in New York.”
The meeting, at the UN, is looking at ways of meeting the Millennium Development Goals — targets on reducing global poverty by the year 2015.
Donors hope the money will be enough to eradicate malaria by that time.
Malaria still kills more than a million people each year, according to the World Health Organization.
- BBC News, 26 September 2008: Link.
See also:
- Roll Back Malaria
- Global Malaria Programme @ WHO
- Malaria @ CDC
~ Karl Jones
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