Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars
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Malaria in Southern Africa
Freeland science writer leslie roberts wrote a feature this week on why the fight against malaria in southern africa has not been paying off, or has even reversed. And we are also going to chat about new tools for getting back in the game. There was big progress against malaria around the turn of the century, and funding shot up to three billion dollars. But then progress stalled, and there were 627 thousand deaths and 20 26 hundred million cases. We have a plateau now, rated and much of this is in africa.
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