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For two consecutive years now, malaria deaths have risen, while funding has flatlined.
Eradicating malaria will require new medical and health-policy solutions as well as stronger political will.
During that time, we have learned that we need more first-hand information from malaria experts operating on the front lines of the fight.
The study compiles advice from ministers of health, heads of national malaria control programs, academics, and community leaders across 14 African countries, all of whom offer critical insights about important challenges and opportunities in the fight against the disease.
And in Southeast Asia, some strains of the malaria parasite itself have begun to develop a resistance to artemisinin, the basic component in standard treatments.
Without a concerted response from the global health community, drug-resistant strains of malaria could spread to Africa and cause more than 100,000 new deaths per year.
A child dies from malaria every two minutes, on average, yet only one in five infected children receives the appropriate treatment.
But the persistence of deaths from malaria shows that treatment is not reaching every child in need.
Since 2000, the global health community has saved millions of lives by responding to specific epidemics like HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Needless to say, improving health-care systems will require more resources and firm leadership, particularly in the countries most affected by malaria.
In response to dwindling donor funds, the Ghanaian government brought the country’s private-sector leaders together to launch the Ghana Malaria Foundation, which currently is working to fill urgent funding gaps, but will eventually help lead a sustainable, domestic effort to eliminate malaria from the country.
This is a challenging moment in the fight against malaria.
While these therapies are being developed, we are also working on a strategy to ensure that patients in malaria-endemic countries can afford them, and to improve the effectiveness of our response by identifying areas where malaria takes the greatest toll.
The fight against malaria has been a multi-decade marathon.
Through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the world has formally committed to ending the malaria epidemic by 2030.
Rather, we need to listen to those on the front lines and heed their calls for a renewed commitment to ending malaria.
Similar efforts are underway on many other fronts – the control of worm infections and leprosy, and now a major global effort to bring malaria deaths nearly to zero by 2015.
In fact, we are controlling disease – polio, malaria, and AIDS – better than ever before, and making big new investments in women’s and children’s health – the key to progress in many other areas.
Weak health-care systems must also be strengthened in order to tackle the endemic diseases that sap productivity, such as malaria, as well as improving preparedness for outbreaks of deadly epidemics.
As recent studies show, if the 1 billion people in the rich world gave $10 per year, the resulting total of $10 billion could finance a serious battle against AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Government research funds in affluent countries are also disproportionately targeted toward the diseases that kill these countries’ citizens, rather than toward diseases like malaria and diarrhea that are responsible for much greater loss of life.
Indeed, rich countries should create a “Global Health Fund” to help less fortunate countries buy drugs and medical services to fight killer diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
It is more important, he says, to tackle problems like diarrhea and malaria.
For example, if farmers could use it to get more accurate predictions of favorable conditions for planting, or to obtain higher prices for their harvest, they would be better able to afford sanitation, so that their children do not get diarrhea, and bed nets to protect themselves and their families against malaria.
Africa’s problems have more to do with droughts, malaria, AIDS, and lack of infrastructure.
Of course, aid should be directed to specific needs – for example, malaria control, food production, safe drinking water, and sanitation – whose fulfillment can be measured and monitored to resist corruption.
In addition to isolation, other problems include droughts in Africa, where farmers depend on rainfall rather than irrigation, and high disease burdens in tropical countries suffering from malaria, dengue fever, and other killer diseases.
No lone African country, for example, can overcome the crushing burden of malaria, a disease that claims perhaps 1million lives per year, and which causes around 800 million episodes of illness per year.
All of the IMF-World Bank missions in the world are not going to overcome the problems of malaria, or drug-resistant tuberculosis, or even low agricultural productivity in the arid regions of Africa.
It now takes around $300 - $500 million to develop a new vaccine, for example, a malaria vaccine.
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