The Lancet Infectious Disease
Apr 2009   Volume 9  Number 4   Pages 203 – 264
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current

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Infectious disease surveillance update
Onisillos Sekkides
In a recent report from, the UN Special Envoy for Malaria, Ray Chambers (New York, NY, USA), notes that the goal of reducing malaria deaths to near zero by the end of 2015 appears achievable. Currently the death rate is 1 million people per year, mostly children younger than 5 years. Of the 109 counties endemic for malaria, declines in malaria deaths have occurred in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Zanzibar has reduced deaths to near zero, and Zambia has reduced the number of children carrying the malaria parasite by 50%