Global Health Progress

…The team is called “United Against Malaria,” and this new global partnership kicked off today in South Africa at the World Economic Forum on Africa’s annual meeting. Kofi Annan helped make the announcement in an event in Cape Town.

By leveraging the 2010 World Cup—an important moment, not just for soccer fans, but for Africa itself—United Against Malaria aims to catalyze the world to reach the 2010 goal of universal access to mosquito nets and malaria medicine in Africa, a crucial first step to reaching the international target of reducing malaria deaths to near zero by 2015.

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