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AFRICA: Drug Subsidy Key to Anti-Malaria Effort

Nairobi : Kenya | 19 days ago  
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Just three percent of malaria-infected children in Africa get World Health Organisation-recommended drugs. One expert has equated this to a death sentence for sick children. Nine hundred thousand people die worldwide every year as a result of malaria, 90 percent of them in Africa.
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