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Trouble with reducing malaria?
Imagine if the United States were to commit the resources to reducing malaria deaths by three-quarters.
Don't be complacent: We have made great progress in reducing malaria burden across the world over the past 15 years.
Mosquirix is no magic bullet and at best may prove to be a useful complementary tool in reducing malaria, but only one of many already being used.
Today's pledge is part of a mission to support the World Health Organisation's goal of reducing malaria deaths by 90 per cent by 2030.
And he announced that Britain would be contributing a further £45m towards provision of mosquito nets - seen by the World Health Organisation as one of the most important ways of reducing malaria.
These would achieve too little and cost too much, he argues, meaning the money would be better spent on, say, reducing malaria and HIV/Aids, or extending clean water and sanitation.
Though we've made extraordinary progress over the past decade in reducing malaria deaths, the malaria parasite is rapidly becoming resistant to some of our best tools – drugs and insecticide sprays.
Since 2000, child deaths have fallen by 2m, partly because of the success of the global health funds in terms of reducing malaria, extending access to vaccines, and reducing mother-to-child Aids transmission.
While recent progress has been made in reducing malaria mortality with other interventions, vaccines are still urgently needed to further reduce the incidence of clinical disease, including during pregnancy, and to provide "herd protection" by blocking parasite transmission.
The Global Fund has also played a major role in reducing Malaria in Africa by 33percentt.
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