Johannesburg, Oct 20, 2025 (AFP) - Climate change, population growth threats as malaria fight stalls

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2025-10-21

The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors threatening a resurgence of the potentially fatal disease, campaigners said Tuesday. Insufficient funding for increasingly costly prevention programmes risked efforts against the mosquito-borne illness at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, they said. The impact would be most keenly felt in Afr......

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