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Paul Wolfowitz on Malaria

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September 08, 2005

Malaria fight in Africa needs better donor coordination and more financial help, according to Paul Wolfowitz speaking ahead of a World Bank malaria summit.

It is a sad fact that malaria kills an African child every 30 seconds despite the existence of methods to both prevent and cure the disease,” Wolfowitz said. We must act now, before the malaria parasite adapts and grows resistant to the insecticides and drugs we have available to us today.

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