1.0 link 194112 <![CDATA[Tackling Malaria: Making Headway Against a Killer]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-hofmann/tackling-malaria-making-h_b_194112.html News about global health is often sobering. I'd like to highlight something the international community is increasingly getting right: tackling malaria.

We've been fighting mosquito-borne disease since 800 B.C. though - officially - the "global fight" started in 1955, when the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first Global Malaria Eradication Program.

Unfortunately, that program quickly fell apart. The "one size fits all" strategy of 1955 ignored differences among cultures, governments and the various malaria epidemics themselves. In most countries, any...

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