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Each year, there are more than 225 million cases of malaria around the world, of which nearly 1 million are fatal, 90% of them in Sub-Saharan Africa where children and pregnant women are the main victims. In recent years the opportunities for fighting and containing malaria have increased. The Global Fund has offered free malaria treatments to many countries in Africa. The resistance problem has been solved by changing to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) in most sub-Saharan  African countries. 

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On 1st march WTO members debated how current global intellectual property rules affect access to medicine and biodiversity protection, but made little progress on either issue, both of which are priorities for developing countries. The WTO-TRIPS Council discussed the use of a system intended to smooth poor countries’ access to patented drugs, as well as whether WTO rules need to be amended to require patent applicants to disclose the use of any genetic materials in an invention to prevent biopiracy.

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