Nature Communications (May 2019)

The economics of malaria control in an age of declining aid

  • Eric Maskin,
  • Célestin Monga,
  • Josselin Thuilliez,
  • Jean-Claude Berthélemy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09991-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Foreign aid is necessary to control tropical diseases in endemic countries. Here the authors outline the steps taken to control malaria in Africa since 2000 and present an economic model to propose that US$25−30 per capita will be needed to avoid a disease trap.