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Call for border screenings to fight cross-border malaria threat

Despite an overall reduction in [b]Southern African[/b] malarial infections over the past 10 years, migration experts worry it’s making a comeback in new ways, reports [s]SABC News[/s]. [b]Roll back Malaria[/b], a partnership of organisations, is calling for border screenings, to understand which forms are being carried across and which regions they are coming from. According to the international [b]Organisation for Migration[/b], one in seven people is a migrant. It believes that increase in the cross border travel and rural and urban migrations within Southern Africa poses one of the most serious challenges to controlling and eliminating the disease.

[link url=http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/4e8e078044a2070b8904f93bfe17c0b1/Malaria-remains-a-threat-in-Southern-Africa-20140607]Full SABC News report [/link]

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