Scaling up malaria control in Africa
Subtitle: an economic and epidemiological assessment
By: Awash Teklehaimanot, Gordon C. McCord, Jeffrey D. Sachs.
Contributors: McCord, Gordon C.; Sachs, Jeffrey.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13664; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13664.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper estimates the number of people at risk of contracting malaria in Africa using GIS methods and the disease's epidemiologic characteristics.  It then estimates yearly costs of covering the population at risk with the package of interventions (differing by level of malaria endemicity and differing for rural and urban populations) for malaria as recommended by the UN Millennium Project.  These projected costs are calculated assuming a ramp-up of coverage to full coverage by 2008, and then projected out through 2015 to give a year-by-year cost of meeting the Millennium Development Goal for reducing the burden of malaria by 75% We conclude that the cost of comprehensive malaria control for Africa is US$3.0 billion per year on average, or around US$4.02 per African at risk"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Title from PDF file as viewed on 6/5/2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in print.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.