Equity and adequacy of international donor assistance for global malaria control: an analysis of populations at risk and external funding commitments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financing for malaria control has increased as part of international commitments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We aimed to identify the unmet financial needs that would be biologically and economically equitable and would increase the chances of reaching worldwide malaria-control ambitions.

Methods

Populations at risk of stable Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax transmission were calculated for 2007 and 2009 for 93 malaria-endemic countries to measure biological need. National per-person gross domestic product (GDP) was used to define economic need. An analysis of external donor assistance for malaria control was done for the period 2002-09 to compute overall and annualised per-person at-risk-funding commitments. Annualised malaria don

SUBMITTER: Snow RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2965358 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature