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One big malaria success story is a program in Zambia run by Seattle-based PATH.
It has involved a rapid expansion of the use of bed nets, insecticides and other measures aimed at preventing mosquitoes from spreading the deadly parasitic disease.
Called MACEPA, the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa, PATH and Zambian officials claim it is having a big impact, especially when it comes to reducing the number of children killed by malaria.
Some global health experts, however, have doubts about those claims of success. And, they have had a devil of a time trying to get data on the program from PATH and the Zambian government to check up on these claims of success.
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Kent Campbell
“The bottom line is that the program is working well. We consider it a model approach that we hope to see widely adopted across Africa,” said Dr. Kent Campbell, director of MACEPA for PATH and a former top malaria expert for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.