Malaria
WHO initiative 'will fail' without increase in aid
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 25th, 2003
An article published in the online open-access Malaria Journal, states that current funding to fight this killer disease is less than 7% of what is needed.
WHO launched the Roll Back Malaria movement (RBM) in 1998 with the World Bank, UNDP and UNICEF. Its goal was to halve malaria deaths by 2010, and again by 2015. RBM set out to do this through detection and treatment of malaria cases, and preventative measures such as bednets treated with insecticide.
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