Nearly 1 million children do not reach their fifth birthday because they die from malaria each year. According to estimates from the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 1 million children do not reach their fifth birthday because they die from malaria each year. Ninety percent of these deaths occur in Africa,…

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Note: This blog of the Global Health Council was originally posted to the ModernizeAid, the blog of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network as the first of a new blog series hosted by the Network. On May 5, 2009, President Obama announced a six-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI) which called for the U.S. to develop an…

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