Roll back malaria? The scarcity of international aid for malaria control.

ABSTRACT: The WHO announced the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) movement in 1998, with the goal of halving malaria deaths by 2010, and halving again by 2015. It is widely agreed that reaching this goal requires a major increase in international aid funding for malaria control, to a budget of perhaps 1.5 - 2.5 billion dollars annually. To ascertain whether progress is being made, we compiled data self-reported by the donors to the Development Assistance Committee of OECD, and also to ourselves directly. We find that, in fact, the total amount of international aid dedicated to malaria control, from the 23 richest donor countries plus the World Bank, remains in the range of 100 million dollars annually - a figure that is virtually unchanged since the start of RBM. This lack of progress toward increasing fundin

SUBMITTER: Narasimhan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC156896 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature