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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 122 - 124
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077900
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A New Global Effort to Control Malaria

Jeffrey D. Sachs*

The time has come to resurrect a worldwide effort to control malaria, following decades of neglect during which the disease has resurged in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa and other endemic regions.

Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
*   The author is chairman of the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health and Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

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