Proposed cuts in foreign aid could cause malaria resurgence

If U.S. President Donald Trump cuts 44% of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) funding, a significant proportion of the global budget for malaria control, there would be a worldwide resurgence of malaria, British researchers say. 

[…] To date, PMI has allocated over $5 billion to 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the hardest hit region in the world, as well as the Mekong region of Asia.

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Cheryl Platzman Weinstock