But, more than a decade later, it turns out that quite a few countries severely affected by malaria still maintain tariffs on the importation of mosquito nets and other malaria-fighting products and drugs.
Children under the age of 5 die from asphyxia at birth, sepsis, pneumonia, malaria and other causes.
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It is in part, because of this simplicity that such tremendous gains have been achieved against malaria and other diseases.
In the past, ideas for drugs to treat malaria and other neglected diseases often languished in labs because of hard economics.
This care has proved to be efficient for treating diseases such as HIV and AIDS, malaria and other parasitic conditions, and chronic and lifestyle diseases.
It has a dedicated maternity programme and a children's ward that deals with many cases of malnutrition, as well as other common diseases including malaria and HIV.
Families must be aware that the water they are provided is harmful to their health and provides a catalyst for breeding mosquitoes carrying malaria and other transferable diseases.
But without this elephant's input of new money and ideas, the battle-front against malaria and other deadly diseases might present an even worse picture, especially if the field were left to governments and inter-governmental bodies.
For example, a cheap, highly effective, timely--and adaptive--approach to malaria (and other mosquito-borne diseases) is available.
Last March, I visited the Germana Gale Health Post in the Dalocha region of Ethiopia, where I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases and other data plastered to its walls.
And given Thailand's role as an emerging donor country, I'm very pleased that our two nations will be working more closely to promote development in other countries, including fighting malaria along the Thai-Burma border.
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Other reasons include the breakdown of malaria-control programmes (as Africa has grown poorer), and greater personal mobility.
America, for example, has asked that only drugs for AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious epidemics be included.
Malaria, yellow fever and other mortal illnesses became endemic, which is one reason so many slaves were transported.
Other genes, that either kill the malaria parasite or make the flies susceptible to insecticides, can be tagged onto the modified genes, and will also spread through the population.
This shows a link between malaria and outcomes for children with other childhood diseases.
And yet, walking around a hospital ward, a doctor told me that as well as malaria, pneumonia and all the other serious health challenges, there was another emerging problem - obesity.
He unearthed studies in medical journals, revealing that the anti-malaria medication the Army gave him and other soldiers can cause the psychiatric symptoms he suffered in Iraq.
Other questions focused on the humanitarian situation in Sudan, and research into malaria treatments.
They ensure that each home has access to a bed net to protect the family from malaria, a pit toilet, first-aid training and other basic health and safety practices.
When Paul Reiter, an expert on insect-borne diseases at the Pasteur Institute, begged to differ pointing out that malaria's range was shrinking and was limited by factors other than temperature he had an uphill struggle.
The World Bank and other donors showed last month that they were ready to intensify the fight against malaria, a disease that causes misery in Africa.
Its predictions of an impending malaria epidemic would be available at the beginning of November, while other models warn only in early March, just a month before an epidemic typically starts.
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The technology, however, could be applied to other vaccines, such as those against influenza virus, or vaccines under development for TB and malaria or for existing vaccines administered in childhood.
The Gates Foundation is the biggest malaria funder on the world block, but it's trying to cooperate with the other players as well.
"I am slightly sceptical of the furore surrounding (malaria and) climate change in the sense that we have to bear in mind there are other factors that are moving much faster than climate change, " he said.
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