Malaria currently kills up to 3 million people per year worldwide,most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Yet the diseaseis utterly treatable and highly preventable. Now, the internationalcommunity has vowed as part of its Millennium Development Goalsto make appropriate investments and interventions to bring thisscourge under control. These goals, adopted by world leadersat the United Nations Millennium Assembly in September 2000,represent a commitment to reducing extreme poverty and diseasessuch as malaria sharply by 2015. Among other objectives, theeight development goals call for reducing by half the ratesof 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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