Africa: Roll Back Malaria Initiative Expected To Fall Short Of Goal

Handicapped by a lack of donations, the U.N.-backed Roll Back Malaria campaign will likely fall far short of its goal of halving the number of malaria deaths worldwide by 2010, Agence France-Presse reports. The number of malaria deaths has not dropped since 1998, when the campaign was launched by health activists, governments and international agencies including UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, the U.N. Development Program and the World Bank. More than 1 million people die annually, nine-tenths of them in Africa, and most are children under 5.