Malaria cases reduced

The availability of bed nets has helped to lower cases of malaria.

This is according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its latest report on the disease.

The group commented that it appears that cases of malaria have been reduced by half in more than 30 per cent of countries which had previously been struggling in the battle against the illness.

This improvement came after a United Nations scheme aimed at intensifying measures to cut the number of cases, WHO claimed.

Robert Newman, director of the Global Malaria Program which is run by WHO, said: "In countries and areas that have achieved high coverage with bed nets and anti-malaria treatments, such as Eritrea, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Zambia and the Island of Zanzibar and the United Republic of Tanzania, recorded cases and deaths due to malaria have fallen by 50 per cent or more."

He said that this demonstrates that healthcare targets can be met if adequate control interventions are made.

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