World’s Fight Against Malaria at Risk on Funding Gap, WHO Says
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Progress in the fight against malaria may be at risk after funding to combat the world’s third-deadliest infectious disease stagnated between 2010 and 2012, the World Health Organization said.
Global funding for malaria control remained at $2.3 billion in 2011, the WHO said in its annual World Malaria Report today. Money available for combating the mosquito-borne disease is expected to peak at about half of the $5.1 billion that’s needed annually to provide bed nets, tests and drugs to all the people who need them, the WHO said.