ECON 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sub-Saharan Africa, Malaria, Unicef
Document Summary
Lots of progress on many public health measures. Malaria alone costs africa 1. 3% of its gdp and most of the children under five years of age who die everyday because of malaria are in sub-saharan africa. The disease infects some 300 million to 600 million every year around the world, according to unicef. Sub-saharan africa alone accounts for 90% of the world"s 580,000 annual malaria deaths. However, malaria deaths in africa have significantly been reduced by 66% since the turn of the century thanks to a raft of interventions such as freely distributed treated bed nets and increased funding for the purchase of improved medicines. Two african countries (morocco and egypt) have already been declared malaria free and six more (south africa, eswatini, botswana, comoros, algeria and cape verde) are on course to eliminate the disease by 2020. Making markets for vaccines: ideas to action. Incentive for governments to wait for other countries to spend the required resources.
