COTE D'IVOIRE: Rate of malaria infection unchanged despite peace

Thenumber of people infected with and dying from malaria in Cote d’Ivoirehas not improved over the last five years, despite the end of the civilwar in the country, the head of the country’s malaria programme Dr.Moïse San Koffi told IRIN. “Right now, the statistics arestagnant,” he said. Between 2003 and 2008, 172,000 children betweenzero and five years-old died every year from malaria in Cote d’Ivoire,he said, equivalent to eight children per hour. Some 60percent of consultations at state-run...