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Eliminating polio requires global, coordinated effort -- Health Affairs article highlights risks, rewards of eradication
Date:7/13/2009

, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, and it eventually cost more than $500 million to control.

Kaufmann and Feldbaum examine the diplomatic actions used to resolve this global health crisis, and draw conclusions about the processes and importance of health diplomacy.

"Flexibility, coordination among multiple actors and a willingness to mix politics, public health, and diplomacy were all a part of the effort. All must be part of the toolbox to address future global health challenges," they conclude.

A New Approach To Delivering Antimalarial Treatments

The global fight against malaria faces the ongoing challenge of making effective medicine affordable in developing countries. Growing resistance to traditional antimalarial drugs has made treatment more difficult, and newer, artemisinin-based medications -- the only drugs to which resistance has yet to develop -- are at least 10 times more costly than older, less effective drugs. In developing countries, most antimalarial medication is purchased at small drug stores in rural villages -- places where conventional development assistance and public-sector channels do not reach.

In 2001, in an effort to delay resistance, the World Health Organization issued a recommendation that artemisinins be used only in combination with another effective antimalarial -- as artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs) -- for the treatment of malaria. However, artemisinin monotherapies continue to be used widely around the world. In their paper, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Hellen Gelband of Resources for the Future discuss a global subsidy that uses the distribution channels of the public and private sectors to make effective drugs accessible to those who need them while simultaneously reducing the risk of the development of resistant strains of malaria.

Laxminarayan and Gelband describe the barriers to creating such a subsidy, which challenged "orthodoxies of development assistanc
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