Ethiopia Needs Nearly $7 Million to Avert Malaria Epidemic - UN [View All]

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With a potentially devastating malaria epidemic threatening to break out in Ethiopia, United Nations agencies are working with the country's Government to raise nearly $7 million to purchase new medicines needed to treat the disease.

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are supporting the Addis Ababa authorities in attempting to rapidly mobilize the funds to supply a newer treatment known as Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) because of increased resistance to drugs now in use.

ACT, although more expensive than other therapies, could limit the devastation caused by malaria epidemics, which have been unusually severe in the last year.

"We need to generate this $6.9 million to meet the needs in the next six months and avert any epidemic that might occur," Angela Walker of UNICEF's Ethiopia office told the UN News Service.
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