For millions of parents in the sub-Sahara, malaria is the number one scourge threatening their children. Treatment and prevention accounts for 40 per cent of Africa's total public health spending.
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However since the beginning of the 21st century, the disease has been in decline. In 2000, malaria killed an estimated one million people – ten years later, that number was down to 655,000. But while in 11 African countries the decline is more than 50 per cent, specialists insist that progress remains fragile.
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Who wants to pay to fight malaria?
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“While the anti-malarial market is huge in terms of those in need, it is small in terms of profit.” This statement by the non-profit group Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) in one of its promotional brochures may seem brutal. But it clearly shows why malaria, formerly known as marsh fever due to its associations with…
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No-one claims that the battle against the disease – which kills about one million people a year – has been won. But of the 20 or so vaccines under development, testing of RTS,S is at the most advanced stage. Some 16,000 children aged between five and 17 months are taking part in phase III clinical…
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