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[Speech] Paul Wolfowitz's adresses malaria

Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank at the Princess of Africa Launch, Johannesburg

17 March 2007 'You have already heard the terrible statistics. Every one of them a human life that -- we are loosing million people a year to diseases that"s preventable, it"s 3,000 people everyday and 90% of them are children, 90% of them are here in Africa and it"s a terrible burden on people who don"t die from it. The estimates I have seen already -- the school children in Kenya on average loose 20 days of school every year because of this disease. I think about my own children and how they would manage in school if they were out sick with a serious disease 20 days every year... read more