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Global malaria action plan launched to eradicate malaria by 2015

080927_novartis.jpg “Malaria defeated the international community many years ago. We cannot allow this to happen again. A single global action plan for malaria control, that enjoys partnership-wide support, is a strong factor for success,” said Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the launch of the new Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) in New York this afternoon. The Plan, launched by the RBM Partnership in collaboration with the British government, the United Nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Malaria No More — along with the private sector, faith and civil society leaders — to commit $3 billion for the ambitious goal of reducing malaria deaths to near zero by 2015. According to the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, malaria affects 3.3 billion people in 109 countries and causes nearly one million deaths per year. Image source: wildsidesa.co.za. > Continue.

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