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It's now time that the WHO lead a similar effort on malaria, tuberculosis, AIDs, and other afflictions of the developing and developed world.
Of course, in the end, success in malaria control, or AIDs control, will require a partnership between the WHO, the private pharmaceutical companies, academic research establishments, and the world's governments.
For example, the WHO and the rich-country governments could promise to purchase an effective malaria vaccine in order to distribute it (below cost) in Africa, thereby guaranteeing the drug companies that they will have a market for a new vaccine if these companies spend the time and money to develop one.
In reality, the global death toll from all of them, combined, is tiny compared to that from major infectious diseases that we hear much less about: diarrhea, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, tetanus, or measles.
For example, if they chose to address high-profile diseases like tuberculosis or malaria, each dollar they spent would achieve $43 or $36 worth of benefits, respectively.
Not confined to Asia, outdoor particulate pollution claims over 3.1 million lives worldwide every year, five times the number of deaths from malaria and slightly less than double the current AIDS death rate.
Maternal deaths have almost halved; child mortality and malaria deaths have halved; extreme poverty has more than halved.
Some conditions, such as neglected tropical diseases, are unique to developing countries, while others, like AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal mortality, affect poor countries disproportionately.
In the ten years before the MDGs, economic growth in the region was slow, the poverty rate was high (and rising), and there was an increasingly heavy disease burden, including HIV/AIDS and malaria.
From 1990 to the peak year, around 2004, annual malaria deaths rose from roughly 800,000 to 1.6 million.
After that point, upon the MDGs-inspired mass distribution of anti-malaria bed nets, malaria deaths began to decline, to around 1.1 million per year in 2010, and perhaps lower now.
So, when a community gets access to childhood immunization, it is often not long before it also gets access to other services, such as neonatal and maternal care, nutritional supplements, malaria prevention measures, and sexual and reproductive health and education.
Some 300 million people become ill with malaria each year, causing 1.5 million deaths, most of them small children.
Children who survive malaria develop into relatively immune adults.
But visitors to a malaria infested country, because they lack this immunity, share the risks borne by local children.
Precisely because malaria differs in this way from other infections, its economic harm is so huge.
Although it once protected people in tropical areas by scaring away colonial invaders, malaria now burdens those same people by scaring investors and other outsiders away.
The effect on foreign direct investment stands out as a crucial factor linking poverty and malaria.
Where malaria transmission is less intense and immunities are not developed, epidemics occasionally sweep through the local population, taking a heavy toll of lives in all age-groups.
In urban areas, where indigenous workers tend to lack immunity to malaria, occasional episodes of the disease result in reduced productivity.
Ill health due to malaria also directly reduces household income by incapacitating workers, causing lost work time, time lost for child-care, impaired cognitive development, and adverse effects during pregnancy resulting in low birth weight and producing physical disabilities.
Indeed, malaria's effect on tourism is important because of tourism's role in bringing foreign exchange to developing countries.
All in all, the vast bulk of malaria's weight falls on developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, and evidence of a reciprocal relationship with poverty has become increasingly evident.
Malaria causes poverty, while poverty causes malaria - far more than other diseases.
By all calculations, the burdens imposed by malaria on economic growth are huge.
Growth is reduced by 1.3% annually, and the total economic costs of malaria add up to about 1% of annual GDP.
The link between poverty and malaria suggests that sub-Saharan countries cannot develop economically unless something is done about the disease.
But fighting malaria also poses particular problems because so much of the disease's economic burden is indirect, threatening the lives of non-immune visitors to endemic sites.
As the applicability of a vaccine-based approach to malaria has not yet been demonstrated, what anti-malaria efforts must above all strive to achieve is a balance between interventions designed to produce immediate health benefits and those that might eliminate malaria as an obstacle to economic development.
They spread a number of diseases – such as chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever, West Nile fever, and Zika virus – which together kill millions of people each year.
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