Nations Work Toward Aim of Zero Malaria Deaths by 2015
19 April 2010
A volunteer in Port-au-Prince treats a Haitian child for malaria
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus.
BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today we will tell about the disease malaria and efforts to defeat it. Scientists say progress in medical research could reduce the number and severity of malaria cases worldwide.
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FAITH LAPIDUS: World Malaria Day activities are planned in many countries this Sunday. The events will call attention to the disease and international efforts against it.
This is the third year that World Malaria Day has been observed. It is also an important year in the fight against malaria. The international malaria community has set the end of twenty-ten as its target for meeting the first in a series of goals.
One of the goals is to provide protection, medical diagnosis and treatment for every person at risk of malaria. A second goal is for the number of malaria cases and deaths to be reduced by fifty percent or more from the number reported in two thousand.
BOB DOUGHTY: The World Health Organization estimates that more than three billion people live in areas where malaria is a threat. That represents more than half of the world’s population. America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the disease will infect three hundred fifty million to five hundred million people around the world this year. Each year, malaria kills about nine hundred thousand people worldwide. Those surviving are often left brain damaged, blind or with hearing loss.
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