Saturday, 24 April 2010

Sri Lanka: statistics on non-sustained eradication of malaria

History shows that malaria control efforts must be sustained to be effective. Sri Lanka is an example of a country where malaria roared back after nearly being eliminated in 1963. But those eradication efforts were not sustained and by 1990 there were a quarter of a million cases. Fortunately malaria control was stepped up again and levels have dropped once more to just 673 cases reported in 2008...
http://www.your-story.org/backsliding-in-malaria-funding-can-reverse-progress-and-increase-lives-lost-185202/...

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