The World Bank is substantially boosting its support to combat malaria, a dangerous disease which kills more than 3,000 people a day in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a new approach to support malaria control entitled "Rolling Back Malaria: The Global Strategy and Booster Program", which will make funding available to countries to enhance existing programs to combat the disease Building on the global knowledge base for malaria control and the World Bank's operational experience, the Global Strategy and Booster Program puts the Bank's comparative advantage to work in addressing, in a strong and sustained fashion, one of the biggest barriers to economic growth and human development in many countries. |   |
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