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"<p>\n\tWorldwide malaria deaths have fallen by a fifth over the last decade, supported by increased funding to fight the disease with better drugs and more preventative measures like mosquito netting.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tRoll Back Malaria reported that the number of deaths from the mosquito-borne illness fell to 781,000 in 2009, compared to at least 984,000 in 2000, according to AFP.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tOver the last decade, spending on anti-malaria programs totaled $5 billion dollars. Funding rose from $100 million dollars in 2003 to $1.5 billion dollars in 2010.<br />\n\t<br />\n\t&quot;This dramatic rise in funding helped transform the malaria landscape, making universal coverage with proven interventions an achievable goal for many countries,&quot; RBM said in its &quot;A Decade of Partnership and Results&quot; report, according to AFP.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tSeveral large donors have also served to boost funding levels in recent years, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tRBM claims that there has been a 38 percent reduction in the number of malaria deaths in the last ten years, a figure it came to based on an analysis of population growth and mortality trends from 2000, AFP reports.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tMalaria prevention programs have, in recent years, distributed enough insecticide-treated mosquito nets to cover 80 percent of Africa&rsquo;s at risk population. Approximately 80 percent of all malaria cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa.</p>\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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