ETHIOPIA MALARIA
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ETHIOPIA is to receive US$1.2 million's worth of medicines from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to fight high rates of malaria infections in the country's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and 'Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regional' states. This worst outbreak since 1998 is being compounded by serious malnutrition following a drought.
ETHIOPIA is to receive US$1.2 million's worth of medicines from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to fight high rates of malaria infections in the country's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and 'Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regional' states. This worst outbreak since 1998 is being compounded by serious malnutrition following a drought.
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