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High malaria cases should be concern for everybody — USAID chief

A report released in April last year showed that while the malaria prevalence rate dropped from 42% in 2014 to 9.1% in 2018, cases started shooting up again.

The U.S Ambassador to Uganda William W.Popp during the launch of the seventh edition of the 'Report to the Ugandan People' A report which provides a review of U.S funded assistance programs in Uganda and their impacts. This is at the American Center in Kampala. (Photos by Mpalanyi Ssentongo)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

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The rising malaria cases should be treated as a national emergency, USAID Uganda country director Richard Nelson has said.



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Rising malaria cases
National concern
Richard Nelson
USAID
Country Director