Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Rolling Back Malaria in Africa
A 9th April, 2008 post on allafrica.com carries an interview with Dr. Awa Marie Coll-Seck the Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership in which she gives insight into the achievements of the Partnership in combating the malaria pandemic in Africa. Roll Back Malaria is a partnership launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the World Bank. It has as its principal goal to mark 2015 as the year in which malaria is eliminated as a major cause of mortality and as a barrier to social and economic development growth anywhere in the world. So far, RBM has helped put malaria firmly on the development and international agenda bringing funding to fight the disease from $60 million to $1 billion (US dollars). It is currently in the process of establishing an Affordable Medicines Facility.
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Contributing money is necessary, but where and how is it spent? Are they developing sustainable and transportable plans? It seems to me that whatever is done needs to be handled with an eye to making sure that every citizen can continue to protect his or her family.
Is 2015 a reasonable year to combat the disease?
Please read the allafrica.com interview -our post has a link to it. Malaria is one of those diseases we have allowed to spiral almost out of control when it is relatively easily manageable. 2015 does seem to us a realistic target year to have malaria as a disease that no longer has a major detrimental influence on economic progress and infant survival rates.
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