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GLOBAL HEALTH Volume 352:115-117 January 13, 2005 Number 2 Next

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Malaria currently kills up to 3 million people per year worldwide, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa.¹ Yet the disease is utterly treatable and highly preventable. Now, the international community has vowed as part of its Millennium Development Goals to make appropriate investments and interventions to bring this scourge under control. These goals, adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Assembly in September 2000, represent a commitment to reducing extreme poverty and diseases such as malaria sharply by 2015. Among other objectives, the eight development goals call for reducing by half the rates of extreme poverty and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, the director of the United Nations Millennium Project, and Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals.

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