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World Malaria Day in brief

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On 25 April, people across the globe took part in a wide range of activities to mark World Malaria Day(link is external). The theme for this year ‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria’ highlights the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment to support countries in their efforts to control and eliminate this deadly disease.

To show our support, WWARN’s Chairman of the Board, Professor Nick J White(link is external), and WWARN’s Clinical Scientific Co-ordinator, Dr Christian Nsanzabana, joined other leading experts in the field at an event(link is external) hosted by the Malaria Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine to speak about the serious global health risk of antimalarial drug resistance. The event highlighted a number of the ongoing efforts to contain the spread of drug resistance and presented strategies for tackling resistance as it spreads and emerges in other areas of Asia and Africa.

Other significant activities surrounding World Malaria Day 2014:

 

Interesting news articles and commentary from World Malaria Day: