Ami Diabate, has brought her three children to a rural clinic to get the latest anti-malarial drugs.The aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières - or Doctors Without Borders - is rolling out the pilot program across Mali.Results are encouraging - a 65-percent drop in infections a week after distribution."My children used to have fevers regularly, she said, but since they started taking this medicine, they haven't run a temperature.Malaria kills an estimated 660,000 people every year. Over the past decade, advances in prevention and treatment have cut the death rate by 30 percent.The World Health Organization warns, however, that funding increases over the past two years have slowed significantly - putting such progress at risk.Simon Wright is head of child survival at the aid agency, Save the Children.“The financial crisis means that a lot of governments - not all by any means - but a lot of governments are tailing off in their aid budgets.And so where we were seeing growth we’re not seeing growth any more. But also there’s a factor of maybe donors changing their interests,” said Wright.
Ami Diabate带着三个孩子来一家乡村诊所领取最新的抗疟疾药。援助机构“无国界医生组织”正在马里推广这个试点项目，结果令人鼓舞：药物发放一周后感染率下降了65%。“我的孩子们过去总发烧，”但自从服用这些药物后，他们就不再发烧。疟疾每年夺去了大约66万人的性命，过去10年间，预防和治疗工作取得进展，将死亡率降低了30%。然而，世卫组织警告说，过去两年的基金增加明显下滑，使得预防和治疗工作面临风险。西蒙・莱特是“拯救孩子”机构的负责人。金融危机使得很多政府都以各种手段削减援助预算，因此那些取得进展的地方以后很难再有进展，但或许也因为捐赠者不再对此感兴趣。
