AllAfrica.com interviews David Brandling-Bennett, deputy director of the malaria program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about the global malaria response. “The last decade has seen a successful global effort to reduce the toll of malaria — a deadly, mosquito-borne infectious disease,” the news service writes. However, Brandling-Bennett “told AllAfrica that the encouraging progress to reduce and eventually eliminate malaria cannot continue without sustained attention and resources,” the news service writes. According to the interview transcript, Brandling-Bennett discusses research and drug development, barriers to treatment, and funding issues (9/7).