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Nature 430, 932-933 (19 August 2004) | doi:10.1038/430932a; Published online 18 August 2004
Malaria Where did it all go wrong?
Amir Attaran1
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Abstract
International agencies have failed to meet their own malaria performance targets and should be held to account, says Amir Attaran.
In May 1998, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a United Nations-led campaign to Roll Back Malaria (RBM), pledging to halve malaria deaths by 2010. Today, RBM is at the halfway point and the WHO's own statistics show deaths have actually increased (see graph).
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