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The irony of this has not been lost on activists, who deal with the drivers of AIDS, TB, and
malaria
– corruption and poverty – on a daily basis.
It suffers from endemic malaria, which is like a SARS pandemic that lasts for centuries, not for a few months.
Consider
malaria.
Models shows global warming will increase the incidence of
malaria
by about 3% by the end of the century, because mosquitoes are more likely to survive when the world gets hotter.
But
malaria
is much more strongly related to health infrastructure and general wealth than it is to temperature.
Rich people rarely contract
malaria
or die from it; poor people do.
Strong carbon cuts could avert about 0.2% of the
malaria
incidence in a hundred years.
The cheerleaders for such action are loud and multitudinous, and mostly come from the rich world, unaffected by
malaria.
The other option is simply to prioritize eradication of
malaria
today.
Tackling nearly 100% of today’s
malaria
problem would cost just one-sixtieth of the price of the Kyoto Protocol.
Put another way, for each person saved from
malaria
by cutting CO2 emissions, direct
malaria
policies could have saved 36,000.
Of course, carbon cuts are not designed only to tackle
malaria.
They found that dealing with HIV/AIDS, hunger, free trade, and
malaria
were the world’s top priorities.
For $12 billion we could cut
malaria
cases by more than a billion a year.
Terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, genocide, poverty, hunger, global warming, huge natural disasters, and the spread of deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis all exemplify global challenges that require multilateral solutions.
Millions of people could be spared malaria, HIV/AIDS, hunger, and life in slums.
For every major problem - hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth - there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.
The morbidity and mortality caused by diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, and pediatric pneumonia and diarrhea certainly justify such priorities.
In the last two decades, astounding success has been achieved in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis, and
malaria.
New HIV infections have dropped by as much as 50% in some countries in Africa, with AIDS-related deaths down by 30-48%;TB cases have declined by 40%, and
malaria
cases by 30%.
In Africa, hunger remains the leading cause of death in children, accounting for half of all deaths of children under the age of five and killing more than AIDS, TB, and
malaria
combined.
And severely underweight children are 9.5 times more likely to die from
malaria
as well.
That total is not as high as the death toll from tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria; but, unlike those diseases, every mammal appears to be susceptible to rabies.
Meanwhile, developing countries’ health-care systems are already grappling with tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria; and post-exposure prophylaxis supplies are limited.
One such disease is
malaria.
To be sure, Africa has lately made significant progress in combating
malaria.
From 2010 to 2015, as part of the global Millennium Development Goals, the continent reduced the
malaria
incidence rate (the number of new infections) by 21% and
malaria
deaths by 31%.
But
malaria
remains a serious threat to the wellbeing of millions of Africans.
In 2015, an estimated 212 million people contracted
malaria
worldwide, with 47% of cases concentrated in just six African countries.
An estimated 429,000 people – mostly children under five years of age – died from
malaria
that year, with 92% of those deaths occurring in Africa and 40% occurring in just two countries, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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