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Global Anti-Malaria Efforts Must Become Stronger
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets, indoor residual spraying and preventive malaria treatment during pregnancy have saved the lives of nearly three quarters of a million children in 34 African countries over the past 10 years, according to the study published by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM).
Most of those lives have been saved since 2006, when the malaria fight got a big injection of cash.
Another three million lives could be saved by 2015 if there is a continuing effort to increase investment to tackle the disease worldwide, said researchers from Tulane University, Johns Hopkins University, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative.
Malaria kills more than 850,000 people each year worldwide, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is responsible for nearly 20 percent of infant deaths.
The disease is contracted when people are bitten by mosquitoes infected with a parasite called Plasmodium.
It causes fever and vomiting and can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs.
The parasites have developed resistance to a number of malaria medications in many parts of the world and it has been more than a decade since a new class of malaria drugs began to be widely used.
Malaria is particularly lethal to pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa, where 10,000 of them die each day due to related complications, such as anemia.
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