Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment / Awash Teklehaimanot, Gordon C. McCord, Jeffrey D. Sachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teklehaimanot, Awash.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

McCord, Gordon C.

Sachs, Jeffrey D.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13664.

NBER working paper series no. w13664

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2007.