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April 26, 2002

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"Malaria Affects Four Million Persons Yearly in Ethiopia"

PANA Wire Service (allafrica.com) (04/25/02)

UNICEF spokeswoman Angela Walker addressed the opening campaign of the 2002 Africa Malaria Control Day with words of warning, saying that malaria is prevalent in 75 percent of Ethiopia and affects more than 4 million people in the country every year. The World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.N. Development Program, and the World Bank began the Roll Back Malaria Campaign in 1998, aiming to reduce by half the rate of morbidity from malaria worldwide by 2010 and targeting rapid diagnosis and research on a vaccine.  Ethiopia, which entered the campaign last year, is working to reduce its malaria death rate by 25 percent by 2005.

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