Malaria

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A woman unfurls an insecticide-treated mosquito net over a child’s bed in Papua New Guinea.

UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria partners ramp up global efforts.
1 May 2008

Dear Friend:
Ten years after UNICEF, the World Health Organization and their partners launched the Roll Back Malaria initiative, malaria is still the single largest child killer in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease takes the lives of some 3,000 children per day.
The Roll Back Malaria partners came together last week, on World Malaria Day 2008, to effort ramp up their global efforts.
“It is unacceptable that malaria still kills more than 1 million people, mostly children, every year,” said UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman. “Malaria is a curable and preventable disease that can be controlled by increasing the use of mosquito nets and other proven interventions as part of integrated, community-based programmes.”
To protect children and families who are still at risk, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a new initiative providing for universal access to mosquito nets in Africa – where 90 per cent of malaria cases occur – by the end of 2010.
Learn more about the fight against malaria.
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VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Anwulika Okafor reports on malaria’s devastating effects and efforts to prevent it.
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