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have shown that much of the problem of global poverty can be traced to severe geographical problems of the poorer countries, such as endemic diseases that are prevalent in the tropics, such as malaria, schistosomiasis, and hookworm.
In the case of malaria, for example, a recent study by the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom estimated that total malaria research worldwide runs at about $80 million per year.
Since malaria kills between 1 and 2 million people per year, this amounts to around $40 - $80 of research spending per malaria death per year.
In many parts of the world, the grassroots organizations providing family-planning services, maternal and child health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, and malaria treatment often represent the first and only line of defense for pregnant women at risk of complications.
In 2012, there were an estimated 207 million cases of malaria, leading to some 627,000 deaths.
Given that there are no vaccines or drug treatments for illnesses like dengue fever and West Nile virus, and that treatments for diseases like malaria are difficult to access in many at-risk areas, more effective mechanisms for controlling mosquito populations are desperately needed.
Less than half of the children who contract potentially deadly diseases like pneumonia and malaria receive treatment.
Consider his foundation’s approach to malaria, which focuses on bed nets, a low-tech, only modestly effective intervention, and on the development of a vaccine, a high-tech solution that has eluded intensive efforts for decades.
Forty-one percent of the world's population live in areas where malaria is transmitted, with 350-500 million cases each year.
It has been estimated that annual economic growth in countries with a high incidence of malaria is 1.3 percentage points lower than that of other countries.
In combination with other anti-malarials, they have been used effectively for several years to treat multiple-drug-resistant malaria.
Since DDT was banned, insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue have been on the rise.
Arata Kochi, the WHO official in charge of malaria said, “We must take a position based on the science and the data.
One of the best tools we have against malaria is indoor residual spraying.
With a notable absence of fanfare, in May 2009 the WHO, together with the UN Environment Program, reverted to endorsing less effective methods for preventing malaria, announcing that their goal is “to achieve a 30% cut in the application of DDT worldwide by 2014 and its total phase-out by the early 2020s, if not sooner.”
Conversely, the developed countries’ view of the diseases of the developing world is that only three are important: AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Indeed, whereas the misery that worm diseases cause is extensive and the burden excessive – as much as tuberculosis or malaria – they do not kill immediately.
Again, the misery caused by these infections exceeds the burden of tuberculosis or malaria.
The US National Academy of Sciences estimates that DDT saved 500 million lives from malaria before 1970.
The number of malaria cases fell from 75 million in 1951 to 50,000 in 1961, and the number of malaria deaths from a million in the 1940's to a few thousand in the 1960s.
Mosquitoes soon hit back and endemic malaria returned to India.
By 1997 the UNDP estimates that there were 2.6 million malaria cases.
Not surprisingly, many environmentalists argue that, in the words of one: "It may be unkind to keep people dying from malaria so that they could die more slowly of starvation.
[Malaria may even be] a blessing in disguise, since a large proportion of the malaria belt is not suited to agriculture, and the disease has helped to keep man from destroying it--and from wasting his substance on it."
The financial burden of health care in low- and middle-income countries is substantial, despite the progress that has been made in fighting HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis.
NEF’s current cohort includes Somalia’s Abdigani Diriye, who created a blockchain-enabled lending platform in Kenya and was recently named one of Africa’s top 30 innovators;Nigeria’s Peter Ngene, whose work on nanotechnologies is being used to improve renewable energy and who also recently created a hydrogen-based eye sensor that detects lactose intolerance; and Vinet Coetzee of South Africa, whose research in non-invasive measures of health has led to a patent application for a device that could detect malaria.
For example, many of the poorest countries are in the tropics, and problems of tropical health (such as malaria) and tropical agriculture, are generally ignored by rich-country scientists.
Staying on Track to End MalariaBASEL – Ending an epidemic is a marathon undertaking, and in the case of malaria, we are nearing the finish line.
Over the past few decades, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector have broken new ground in the science of treating malaria, and have channeled extraordinary resources toward the cause.
The investments have paid off: the global malaria mortality rate fell by 60% between 2000 and 2015.
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