More deaths from malaria than trauma injuries

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The World Health Organisation has found that more people died of malaria in Sierra Leone in the last few years than from war-related injuries, Richard Allan, focal person for the global Roll Back Malaria (RBM) programme, said on Friday. Sierra Leone is not alone. WHO estimates that up to 30 percent of the 960,000 peple who die of malaria each year in Africa are from countries affected by serious conflict, war or natural disaster, according to an RBM news release. The UN agency and other partners in the RBM movement are now focusing more on the health needs of people affected by complex emergencies, RBM said.

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