The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors threatening a resurgence of the potentially fatal disease, campaigners said Tuesday.

Insufficient funding for increasingly costly prevention programs risked eroding efforts made against the mosquito-borne illness at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, they said.

The impact would be most keenly felt in Africa, which accoun

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