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Malaria funding to shrink in 2012, WHO warns
Dec 13, 2011, 17:22 GMT
Geneva - Although malaria death rates have dropped by a quarter in the past decade, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday that the fight against the disease might be hampered by falling funds.
Some 655,000 people died from malaria last year, 5 per cent less than in 2009, Geneva-based organization said.
Successful measures like delivering mosquito nets and increasing the amount of diagnostic testing have spread in Africa in recent years, where 91 per cent of global deaths from the disease occured last year.
At the same time, WHO warned that global funding to push back malaria was expected to decrease in 2012 and 2013, after having risen to 2 billion dollars this year.
'The toll taken by the current economic crisis must not result in our gains being reversed, or progress slowed,' said Raymond Chambers, the UN Special Envoy for Malaria.
WHO also warned that resistance against the drug artemisinin has been growing in south-east Asia and that mosquitos are getting resistant to insecticides everywhere but in Europe.
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