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Why we must step up fight against malaria urgently

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Tremendous progress has been made in the fight against malaria. Up to one million people sleep under bed nets annually. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine says children who sleep under insecticide-treated bed nets have a 43 per cent lower risk of death than those who do not.

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