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Anglogold-Ashanti to expand fight against malaria
...[In Ghana]...[m]alaria has long been a...problem, not only as a key cause of adult morbidity and the country's single biggest killer of children...but also a leading cause of workdays lost...to illness...[I]n 2006 AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (AGA) launched an indoor residual spraying programme in houses, hospitals, orphanages and other buildings...in...Obuasi...home to one of the company's...gold min[es]...[I]n just two years...the...rate of malaria...plummet[ed by] 72%...[From] 6,711 cases of malaria...in...2005...that figure had shrunk to...238 [ by mid-2013]...Dr Brian Brink...a board member of The Global Fund [said]..."You can't run a profitable mine in a community that's sick. We've heard how business can change that and it's not just about gold mining, but the extractive industries in general."[T]he company has already rolled out similar programmes in Mali, Tanzania and Guinea and has ambitious plans to expand the programme's good work in Ghana...