Malaria control interventions have scaled up in recent years, and global funding increased to $1.7 billion in 2009. Contributions come from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, along with more recent commitments from the World Bank, the US President’s Malaria Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among other bilateral donors.
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UN Secretary General Special Envoy on Malaria Ray Chambers makes closing remarks at UNICEF- and Roll Back Malaria-hosted event.
However, available funds are still far short of the estimated $6 billion needed worldwide for effective malaria control in 2010.
Since 2000, bed net coverage has increased ten-fold in 11 African countries. Nine others have achieved five-fold increases. And innovative programmes are under way. Zambia and Senegal, for example, recently adopted routine antenatal care visits providing appropriate anti-malarial drugs to mothers – another preventive measure to curb the spread of disease.
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