Tanzania, March 30 -- Uganda's Ministry of Health on Friday said that international donors have significantly cut funding to malaria projects in the country over global crises including conflicts and climate change.

Jimmy Opigo, head of the National Malaria Control Division at the Ministry of Health, told reporters in Kampala that the withdrawal of external funding will have adverse effects on malaria control and treatment costs in the country.

"The cost of malaria control in public health has been 95 percent donor dependent. The funding has been allocated to mosquito nets for prevention, residual indoor spraying, test kits for malaria, and first and second-line malaria treatment in both the private and public sectors, which the donors ...