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The main obstacle to the eradication of malaria lies within Africa itself

Technology and G8 funding have given the continent its best chance yet of combating its number one killer. The numbers are impossible to digest. Three million people a year die from the disease, most sufferers contract it two or three times a year and, whenever they do, are so struck down that they can neither work nor tend to their families for several weeks at a time. So if 2005 was the year of Africa, what happened to malaria?