WHO: Funds put fight against malaria at risk
GENEVA -- Progress in the fight against malaria may be at risk after funding to combat the world's third-deadliest infectious disease stagnated between 2010 and 2012, the World Health Organization said Monday.
Global funding for malaria control remained at $2.3 billion in 2011, the WHO said in its annual World Malaria Report. Money available for combating the mosquito-borne disease is expected to peak at about half of the $5.1 billion needed annually to provide bed nets, tests and drugs to all the people who need them, the WHO said.
Malaria killed 660,000 people in 2010, mostly children under 5. The disease is concentrated in 14 endemic countries, including Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and India. An expansion of measures to combat malaria helped avert 1 million deaths in the past eight years, according to the WHO.
Fifty countries are on track to cut their rate of malaria cases by 75 percent by 2015 from 2000, in line with global targets. Still, those countries only represent 3 percent of estimated malaria cases in 2000, the WHO said.
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