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World Health Organization Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria. World Health Organization. Geneva, 2006. 

G. CovELL, G. R. CoATNEY, J. W. FiELD and J. Singh, Chemotherapy of Malaria (World Health Organization Monograph Series No. 27, World Health Organization, Goneva 1955). 

The most important tropical parasitic disease is malaria. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are aroimd 300-500 millions clinical cases of malaria each year, and approximately 1 million deaths occur every year (Thayer, 2005). Malaria is caused primarily by four Plasmodium species, but Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe form of the disease, causing 90% of deaths in Africa (Thayer, 2005). 

Preventive medicine through vaccination continues to be the most cost-effective pubHc health practice, even with the drastic advance in modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs have eradicated smallpox from the earth. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a major campaign underway to eradicate poHo by the year 2000. The development of vaccines has saved millions of Hves and prevented many more from suffering. However, there are stiU many diseases without effective vaccines, such as malaria. With the recent emergence of antibiotic-resistance strains and exotic vimses, an effective vaccine development program becomes a top priority of pubHc health poHcy. 

World Health Organization (2006) Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. WHO Press. 

Roll Back Malaria —a partnership between the World Health Organization, the UN Development Program, UNICEF and the World Bank. Available at http //mosquito.who.int. 

World Health Organization. Malaria rapid diagnosis, making it work. In RS/2003/GE/05 report. Geneva WHO, 2003. 

States in 1973. Although banned in developed countries, its use to improve public health in undeveloped countries continues. The World Health Organization estimates that DDT has saved 25 million lives from malaria and hundreds of millions of other lives from other diseases. 

Almost all the funding for the World Health Organization s (WHO) international strategy to eliminate malaria came from the United States. The U.S. contributed 17.5 million of the total 20.5 million budget of the WHO program between 1956 and 1965 all other countries combined contributed only 2.8 million. Independently of the WHO program, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent 1.2 billion on its own malaria-control operations between 1950 and 1972. 

World Health Organization (WHO). 1998a. WHO Fact Sheet on Malaria Fact Sheet No. 94. Geneva WHO. 

World Health Organization, Malaria Eradication, A Plea for Health, Genf, 1958. 

World Health Organization (1993) Implementation of the global malaria control strategy. WHO Technical Report Series, No. 839. WHO Press. 

World malaria report (2011) Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization, http //www.who.int / malaria /world malaria report 2011/9789241564403 eng. pdf. Accessed 02/20/2010. 

Malaria is one of the world s most serious human health problems. According to the World Health Organization, more than 200 million new infections occur each year, many resulting in death [66]. The disease is caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, most notably P. falciparum, which live in the intestines of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Humans are infected by bites from infected mosquitoes, by blood transfusions from infected donors, or by an expectant mother transmitting the disease to her child. Malaria is endemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent and Oceania [67]. 

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