Fake and black-market drugs, especially malaria treatments, still a scourge in Africa

Posted on November 14, 2013 by admin

Recent aggressive measures against the anopheles mosquito, sanitation measures, earlier and more accurate diagnostic techniques, and more efficient medication delivery through improved infrastructures has led to a decline in malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, from over 1 million annually to the recently-estimated 600,000 (still a catastrophe). Various agencies of the U.S. government have played crucial roles in financing the miraculous change in prognosis for malaria in Africa, starting with the PMI (President’s malaria initiative) of Pres. GW Bush. Currently, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is in charge of these programs, in cooperation with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria—an initiative set up by the United Nations and Western governments that spends one-third of its budget on malaria control…..To Read More…..