SWAZILAND: Winning the fight against malaria

MANZINI Monday, December 01, 2008 (IRIN) - A decline in the incidence of malaria in Swaziland is being attributed to a devastating drought in the country's malaria belt. In recent years the government and international donors have embarked on a coordinated response to the mosquito-borne disease and there now is confident talk of making Swaziland malaria-free. Malarial eradication is defined as no new clinically confirmed cases. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a...