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There is, therefore, an urgent need to accelerate progress – and end malaria for good.
In many African countries, malaria reduces GDP growth by one percentage point per year.
The effort to end malaria can therefore not be separated from the effort to ensure prosperity across Africa.
The Copenhagen Consensus think tank estimates that every dollar invested in ending malaria yields $36 in economic returns.
Of course, even with private-sector investment, progress toward eradicating malaria in Africa will be uneven, not least because different countries are at different points on the path.
No single African country can reliably eliminate malaria so long as the disease remains rampant among its neighbors.
That is why it is vital for African governments to work together, using every tool at their disposal, to achieve comprehensive malaria control, pre-elimination, and, ultimately, elimination.
ALMA – a coalition of 49 African heads of state and government working to eliminate malaria by 2030 – aims to advance precisely such cooperation, by focusing on accountability and action at the national, regional, and global levels.
Through its digital financial platform, the Ecobank Foundation is leveraging its presence to bring in new funding for the fight against malaria.
And it is raising awareness as well, among its own staff and other stakeholders, of how to support malaria prevention, including through mosquito nets and a clean environment.
The goal of eradicating malaria in our lifetime may sound ambitious, but it is achievable.
Learn more about the fight against malaria.
By selecting particular villages and providing basic health care, bed nets to stop malaria, primary education, better seeds, and other agricultural assistance, the organization aims to show that well-designed, comprehensive aid plans can, at relatively modest cost, raise people out of poverty.
In recent decades, international and local cooperation have reduced Africa’s malaria deaths by 60% , pushed polio to the brink of eradication, and extended the lives of millions of Africans infected with HIV/AIDS.
Today, cancer kills more people in developing countries than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
When the world took notice that infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, polio, and malaria were ravaging Africa, action plans were drawn up and solutions were delivered.
Changing weather patterns are already affecting the lives of millions of Africans by reducing food security, facilitating the spread of diseases like malaria, and prompting mass migration.
Killing Non-Communicable DiseasesSEATTLE – Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio, childhood mortality rates have been reduced by 50%, and average life expectancy has increased by more than six years.
While about 3.2 million people died from malaria, TB, or HIV/AIDS in 2014, more than 38 million died from NCDs.
Scientists and engineers in my own research area have already invented devices to help vulnerable babies breathe easier, detect malaria and HIV in war zones, and keep counterfeit medicines out of rural areas.
In contrast, GiveWell estimates that the cost of saving a life by distributing bed nets in regions where malaria is a major killer is $3,400.
Our analysis investigated, for example, the merits of more targeted policies for the near term: purchasing mosquito-resistant bed nets and oral re-hydration malaria therapy for children in the poorest nations affected by climate change.
Genetic research will transform approaches to personal and public-health problems, including scourges like AIDS and malaria.
Consider the battle against AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Globalizing the Fight Against Non-Communicable DiseaseMONTREAL – Global health organizations and initiatives – and, in particular, the World Health Organization – have traditionally focused on infectious diseases, from malaria (their great failure) to smallpox (their greatest success).
While 3,000 innocent people died in the US on September 11, 2001, in Africa 8,000 innocent children die every day from malaria.
Yet malaria is preventable and treatable.
The US spends more on Iraq each day than it does on Africa's malaria in a year.
They point out, for example, that malaria deaths will climb along with temperatures, because potentially killer mosquitoes thrive in warmer areas.
But it’s not as simple as the bumper sticker slogan “Fight climate change and ward off malaria.”
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