May 30 2012
Al Jazeera's "Counting the Cost" program on Saturday focused on the fight against malaria and the "business behind its treatment and prevention." According to the program, progress against malaria "is being threatened in these tough economic times. There is a $3 billion shortfall in funding for malaria treatment and prevention." The program reports on drug-resistant malaria strains in South-East Asia; examines a vaccine candidate under development by GlaxoSmithKline; speaks with Jo Lines of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Christoph Benn of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria about the impact of the international financial crisis on the fight against the disease; and discusses a mobile phone app developed by a group of medical students that would help people receive a quicker diagnosis and treatment (Santamaria, 5/26).
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