Tanzania urges help to fight malaria

The President of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, says there is a need for greater international support to tackle disease in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the case of malaria, which he says infects millions of people every year.

Speaking at the annual regional health ministers' conference in Dar Es Salaam, Mr Mkapa said that health of people in developing countries was not getting enough attention from industrialised nations.

President Mkapa's comments came as a one-and-a-half million dollar anti-malarial partnership was announced between the US based Malaria Vaccine Initiative and Oxford University in Britain, along with its commercial subsidiary, Oxxon Pharmaccines.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service