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Independent Evaluation Of PMI Presented To U.S. Congress
The Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD) at Boston University on Thursday delivered its report (.pdf) on the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), released in February, to the U.S. Congress, IIP Digital reports, noting the "independent evaluation team finds that the [PMI] has been 'very successful' in reducing children's deaths from the mosquito-borne parasitic disease, but also warns that the program must gear up if those gains are to be sustained." The news service adds, "The CGHD report recommends a re-evaluation of malaria prevention methods, including insecticide use, which, the researchers find, covers a fraction of the at-risk population at a high cost" (6/6).
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