BMJ 2008;336:1331 (14 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39609.444919.DB
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Mortality rates from malaria in children under 5 fall sharply in 10 countries
Rory Watson
1 Brussels
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Latest figures from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria show that considerable advances are being made in tackling all three diseases.
Released this week to coincide with the United Nations’ general assembly high level meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York, the figures show that the fund has delivered 59 million bed nets impregnated with insecticide to families at risk of catching malaria, almost double the number that were issued a year ago.
Michel Kazatchkine, the fund’s executive director, said there was now clear evidence that mortality rates from the disease among children younger than 5 years of age had fallen sharply in 10 sub-Saharan countries, and, in Zanzibar, malaria had been almost eradicated as a public health problem.
The fund also announced that 1.75 million people with HIV were benefiting from antiretroviral treatment through programmes supported by the fund—a 59% rise on figures a year ago. Currently
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