Arata Kochi, head of the World Health Organisation's malaria programme, has owned up to its past shortcomings.

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"My father died calmly, " his son Arata told the AFP news agency, adding that the film-maker had died of pneumonia.

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In hopes of slowing the epidemic, Dr. Arata Kochi, director of WHO's global TB program, has been promoting DOTS therapy (directly observed treatment, short-course), whereby health-care workers watch patients take their medicine completely and correctly.

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