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Hunger, malnutrition and disease continued to mount in Malawi during the worst drought in decades. More than 6.7 million people faced food shortages, and possibly starvation, without ongoing humanitarian assistance.
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In Malawi, the U.S. Government has procured more than 10 million long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs), over 27 million rapid diagnostic tests, 45 million quality medicines called artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), and 4 million sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) treatments to prevent malaria in pregnancy, in addition to training over ten thousand people on malaria case management, preventive treatment for pregnant women, and indoor residual spraying operations.
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