North - South partnership in battle against Malaria

Research scientists in the Netherlands say that a new partnership between African experts and their colleagues in leading industrialised countries could herald a new era in the battle against malaria - which now kills more than a million people a year.

An article in the journal, Science, says that with the malarial parasite becoming increasingly resistant to drugs, scientists from rich and poor countries are joining forces to fight it.

And, recognising the huge socio-economic cost of malaria, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation have started to generate more investment to tackle the problem.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service