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Malaria in Africa: progress and prospects in the decade since the Abuja Declaration 
Malaria is a global health problem but more than 70% of the total morbidity is in Africa. 10 years ago, heads of state from across Africa signed a declaration in Abuja, Nigeria, to "halve the malaria mortality for Africa's people by 2010". This Viewpoint discusses how far we have come in this effort, what we can expect for the future, and what our priorities should be.
Not long after the launch of the Global Malaria Eradication Programme in 1955, it became apparent that elimination was not yet achievable in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1969, global malaria eradication changed from a time-limited campaign to a long-term goal. The strategy started to focus on control, but in practice this approach relied on treatment of febrile illness and during the 1970s and 1980s, malaria-specific mortality began to rise frighteningly as resistance to chloroquine spread.
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