Malaria Elimination Possible With More Investment, Former WHO Official Says

Thomson Reuters Foundation: With more cash, we can eliminate malaria within our lifetime: ex-WHO official
“Malaria can be eliminated soon, but only with much more investment, both to get rid of the disease and to keep it at bay, a former senior official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said. … ‘It’s very crucial that the world understands that … malaria can be got rid of. That we’re not condemned to live with such a dreadful disease — which is preventable and treatable — beyond our generation,’ Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho said in an interview…” (Whiting, 4/27).

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