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Roll Back Malaria and the New Partnership for Africa's Development: Is There Potential for Synergistic Collaboration in Partnerships?
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African journal of health sciences, 2006, Vol.13 (1-2), p.22-27
Ort / Verlag
Kenya: The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
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This synopsis seeks to highlight and promote the enormous potential
that exists between these two initiatives that seek to address closely
related issues and targeting the same populations at risk within a
fairly well defined geographical setting. It also attempts to argue
that malaria control, just like HIV-Aids control be given high priority
in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) health agenda,
as current statistics indicate that malaria is again on the rise. While
much attention and billions of dollars have rightly been given to
HIV-Aids research, treatment and prevention, malaria, and not Aids, is
the region's leading cause of morbidity and mortality for children
under the age of five years. This is the bad news. The good news is
that unlike Aids, malaria treatment and prevention are relatively
cheap. In addition, there is a payback to fighting malaria; support
aimed directly at improving health, rather than poverty reduction, may
be a more effective way of helping Africa to thrive. Robust and
sustained growth may come to Africa through a mosquito net,
Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs) or a malaria vaccine,
rather that a donor's cheque for economic development initiatives.