Conquering malaria: enhancing the impact of effective interventions towards elimination in the diverse and changing epidemiology

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dc.contributor.authorMgone, Charles S.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-17T04:43:59Z
dc.date.available2020-03-17T04:43:59Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractMalaria remains a major global disease burden causing just under a million deaths each year, mainly of children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. It consumes up to 40% of public health expenditure of these poor countries, causing in Africa US$ 12 billion in lost GDP every year. This should not be acceptable since malaria is preventable, and there is clear evidence that optimal use of current tools can reduce much of the suffering and deaths. Three major factors allowing this to happen include: (i) inadequate funding to implement a massive initial surge, to achieve universal coverage, (ii) weak country capacities for rapid scale up of such interventions and little or no use of evidence-guided methods, and (iii) insufficient coordination of efforts between national programmes, donors and technical agencies in strategic planning for sustaining gains and in building capacity. We discuss the importance of the surge and the kind of approaches that would accelerate the pace toward elimination and eventual eradication.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKitua, A., Ogundahunsi, O.A.T., Lines, J. and Mgone, C., 2011. Conquering malaria: enhancing the impact of effective interventions towards elimination in the diverse and changing epidemiology. Journal of global infectious diseases, 3(2), p.161.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.81694
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/350
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of global infectious diseasesen_US
dc.subjectEpidemiologyen_US
dc.subjectMalariaen_US
dc.titleConquering malaria: enhancing the impact of effective interventions towards elimination in the diverse and changing epidemiologyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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