Tories make £500m malaria pledge
The malaria parasite is spread by mosquitoes
The Conservatives have pledged to spend £500m a year of the UK's foreign aid on tackling malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne said the funding would continue until a UN target of reducing the incidence of the killer disease was met.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme malaria did not get the same international attention as Aids but it was "killing 3,000 children a day".
The malaria parasite is spread by mosquitoes
The Conservatives have pledged to spend £500m a year of the UK's foreign aid on tackling malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne said the funding would continue until a UN target of reducing the incidence of the killer disease was met.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme malaria did not get the same international attention as Aids but it was "killing 3,000 children a day".
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