Welcoming progress in fight against malaria, Ban calls for more work to continue momentum

In a message to mark World Malaria Day today, the United Nations Secretary-General said that better access to insecticide-treated bed nets and greater availability of accurate diagnostics and effective treatment were the main reasons why the UN health agency reported in 2014 that the rate at which people are dying from malaria had halved since the turn of the century.
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news