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Malaria Mortality Rates Down, But Progress Threatened By Funding Shortfall, WHO Report Says
"Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25 percent globally since 2000, and by 33 percent in the WHO African Region, according to the World Malaria Report 2011, issued [Tuesday] by [the] WHO," the organization reports in a press release. "This is the result of a significant scaling-up of malaria prevention and control measures in the last decade," the press release adds. However, the press release notes, "WHO warns that a projected shortfall in funding threatens the fragile gains and that the double challenge of emerging drug and insecticide resistance needs to be proactively addressed" (12/13).
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