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Trump to slash malaria program
Cuts to US overseas aid could lead to an extra 13 million cases of malaria and 10,000 deaths in Africa this year, Lancet modeling suggested.President Donald Trump wants to halve the budget for a George W. Bush-era program that provides bed nets, insecticide, and drugs to prevent and treat the mosquito-borne disease. Malaria kills around 600,000 people, mostly African children, each year. It marks the latest White House assault on global health i…
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lagostelevision.comNigerian company to make HIV, malaria test kits after US funding cut
Nigerian manufacturer Codix Bio Ltd plans to make millions of HIV and malaria test kits at its new plant outside Lagos for the local and regional market to help fill gaps in the wake of cutbacks at US donor agency USAID, a company executive says.
One of the most important US programs in the fight against malaria in Africa hangs by a thread and the consequences of its disappearance or weakening would be catastrophic. This is the conclusion that The Lancet has reached, which has published a study this Friday in which it estimates that if the Presidential Initiative against Malaria (PMI), which began in 2005 with George W. Bush, continued smoothly and with its full budget, 13 million cases …
Millions at risk as US cuts flagship malaria campaign More than 13 million people in Africa could contract malaria as funding for the US President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is cut, putting international aid budgets under increasing pressure.
More Than 13mn People In Africa Could Catch Malaria Owing To Proposed US Cuts - Data Intelligence
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US plans to slash spending on a flagship campaign against malaria threaten millions more cases and tens of thousands of extra deaths in Africa this year, according to new research on the potential impact of global aid cuts. Scientists project that full funding of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) would stop mor…
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