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UN chief to announce plan to eliminate malaria deaths [1]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will announce a new global initiative on Friday to eliminate more than one million deaths every year caused by malaria as quickly as possible. In his video message for a World Malaria Day event at UN headquarters, Ban said the initiative will offer indoor spraying and bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide "to all people at risk, especially women and children in Africa" by the end of 2010. The video was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2008
Daily Star (Bangladesh) [2]
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Malaria [3], Children [4], Bangladesh [5]
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