Tanzania in five-year plan to eradicate malaria scourge

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Tanzania is now banking on support from the USA to end the malaria scourge — one of the world’s biggest killer diseases — by 2027.  PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK

Tanzania is now banking on support from the USA to end the scourge of malaria — one of the world’s biggest killer diseases — by 2027.

The new five-year anti-malaria programme to combat malaria infections, both in Tanzania mainland and in Zanzibar, targets destruction of breeding points for mosquitoes, the vectors that help malaria parasites to spread.