While financing for malaria control has increased as part of
international commitments to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), new research shows total global funding is 60%
short of the US$4.9 billion needed for comprehensive control in
2010. But while this headline is bad news for the malaria
community, there is also some much needed good news—that 21
countries, including 12 in Africa, have now received adequate or
near-adequate donor assistance for effective malaria control.
The findings are published in an Article Online First
(www.thelancet.com) and in upcoming Lancet, written by Professor
Bob Snow, Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre
for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI—University of Oxford—Wellcome
Trust Collaborative Programme, Kenyatta National Hospital,
Nairobi, Kenya, and colleagues. The study was funded by the
Wellcome Trust. The authors assessed the level of malaria risk
and the resulting financial requirements for 93 malaria-endemic
countries. An analysis of external donor