HEALTH units across Mozambique have registered more than three million cases of malaria last year out of a population of 17-million inhabitants. In a document presented to its Coordinating Council currently meeting in Maputo, the ministry of health said 1_637 of the malaria sufferers are known to have died of the disease. The document also cites cholera as another serious public health problem, noting that in 2000 there were 25_703 diagnosed cases of the disease, resulting in 154 known deaths. The report says 2_828 cases of Aids were diagnosed last year and 130_059 cases of other sexually transmitted diseases. – Pana