Achieving the Millennium Development Goals — The Case of Malaria

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Malaria currently kills up to 3 million people per year worldwide, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Yet the disease is utterly treatable and highly preventable. Now, the international community has vowed as part of its Millennium Development Goals to make appropriate investments and interventions to bring this scourge under control. These goals, adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Assembly in September 2000, represent a commitment to reducing extreme poverty and diseases such as malaria sharply by 2015. Among other objectives, the eight development goals call for reducing by half the rates of extreme poverty and . . .

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