PACIFIC: Australia offers aid to fight malaria

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Updated May 14, 2007 19:16:03

Australia is to spend an extra 25-million dollars to fight malaria in the Pacific. The four-year project has been announced by Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer. 14-million Australian dollars will go to Solomon Islands and six-million dollars to Vanuatu. The remaining five-million dollars will be invested in malaria research.

Presenter: Steve Holland
Speakers: Sir Richard Feachem, chairman of the Malaria Reference Group

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