Recently there has been some good news on two global diseases: Ebola and AIDS. Public health officials at the World Health Organization expect that, with diligence, the Ebola crisis in West Africa may be eliminated by the end of 2015. The Foundation for AIDS Research, or Amfar, has committed $100 million to undertake research it believes may lead to an end of AIDS by 2020. Good news for sure. But one health problem continues to plague the developing world, particularly Africa.
Despite decades of research and public health interventions, prospects for containing malaria remain elusive. The World Health Organization estimates that 3.2 billion people (almost half the world’s population) are at risk of malaria. Each year there are between 125 and 300 million cases of malaria worldwide and deaths from malaria ranging from almost 400,000 to 700,000. People living in Sub Saharan Africa account…
