Five years ago, 44 African heads of state pledged to halve the number of deaths caused by malaria on their continent within a decade. Halfway through that decade, it looks, on the face of things, as though not a lot of progress has been made. At the moment, there are reckoned to be around 500m cases of malaria around the world every year, the vast majority in Africa. According to the forthcoming World Malaria Report 2005 there is no evidence that this has changed since 2000, although an earlier document, the Africa Malaria Report 2003, concluded that in some countries in the east and south of the continent the amount of malaria had actually increased.
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