Thanks for this interesting stuff! I like that stat about 10% of diseases causing over 50% of the morbidity/mortality, and eradicating those having a much smaller cost. For that reason me that 1.4 trillion number to potentailly eradicate 50% of the might be more important than the 14 trilllion one.
I’ll have a look at the lancet paper—I don’t really understand the 8.5 billion being needed to “maintain” the situation after malaria is eradicated, I thought the definition of eradication was that it was gone (like smallpox) - so would no longer need money pumped into it. Perhaps they are assuming malaria remains in animals continuing the life cycle?
Thanks for this interesting stuff! I like that stat about 10% of diseases causing over 50% of the morbidity/mortality, and eradicating those having a much smaller cost. For that reason me that 1.4 trillion number to potentailly eradicate 50% of the might be more important than the 14 trilllion one.
I’ll have a look at the lancet paper—I don’t really understand the 8.5 billion being needed to “maintain” the situation after malaria is eradicated, I thought the definition of eradication was that it was gone (like smallpox) - so would no longer need money pumped into it. Perhaps they are assuming malaria remains in animals continuing the life cycle?