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Last updated: 22 december, 2009 - 09:04 GMT

Anti-malaria drive pays offA child suffering with malaria lies under a mosquito net

The World Health Organisation reports that increased development aid has led to a direct drop in cases of malaria in a third of the most severely affected countries. Claudia Hammond investigates.

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