Global Health and Business Leaders Announce 36-Month Effort to Expand Malaria Control in Africa; 3.5 Million Lives Could be Saved in Five Years, S...(still kills one million people a yearglo...),Health

Date:1/25/2008

still kills one million people a year globally, mostly children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A child dies every 30 seconds from malaria - 3, 000 children a day. Malaria also drains Africa of billions of dollars a year in health costs and lost productivity, trapping hundreds of millions of people in a cycle of extreme poverty and perpetual illness.

Coupled with expanded funding, malaria control measures are already enabling African countries to slash malaria incidence and deaths in the space of a few years. In Eritrea, malaria deaths have fallen 85% since 1999. Ethiopia has distributed nearly 20 million bed nets in three years, going from 5% bed net coverage to nearly 100% coverage today. Similarly striking results have been demonstrated in Zambia, Mali, Kenya, South Africa, and the Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar.

"We're making good progress, but now is the time to redouble our efforts through rapid scale-up," said Raymond G. Chambers, co-chairman of Malaria No More. "We lose at least 3,000 more children every day we delay. We simply can't afford to wait."

The full report can be downloaded at: http://www.malarianomore.org/businesscase

About the Report

The Malaria No More/McKinsey & Company report was created in consultation with more than 30 leading experts across key international anti-malaria partners, including the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank, the United Nations Children's Fund, USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a host of non-profit and academic institutions. The projections and cost estimates are based on an intervention approach (including prevention, treatment, and support) validated by leading technical experts at the WHO and elsewhere, and are consistent with the approach used in recent estimates by the WHO. Outcome estimates were generated based on a wide-rangi
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