Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health campaign

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1086

BMJ 2004;328:1086-1087 (8 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1086

Editorial

Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health campaign

Only increased donor support for malaria control can save it

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Roll Back Malaria was launched in 1998 bringing together multilateral,bilateral, nongovernmental, and private organisations. It madea clear pledge—to halve deaths from malaria by 2010. Africanheads of state endorsed the pledge at a summit in Abuja, Nigeria,in 2000.¹ This endorsement was vital because 90% of the onemillion annual deaths from malaria are in Africa, mostly inyoung children and pregnant women.² With just six years to gowe have reached the halfway point since the pledge. How is RollBack Malaria doing?

A graph distributed at the most recent Roll Back Malaria boardmeeting in New York, based on data from the World Health Reports1999-2003, shows that the annual number of deaths worldwidefrom malaria is higher now than in 1998 (see bmj.com). The AfricaMalaria Report 2003, published by Unicef and the World HealthOrganization, two of the biggest players in Roll Back Malaria,. . . [Full text of this article]

Gavin Yamey, assistant editor

BMJ Learning, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR

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