BMJ  2004;328:1129-1132 (8 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1129

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Linking disease control programmes in rural Africa: a pro-poor strategy to reach Abuja targets and millennium development goals

¹ Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, ² Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva 1216, Switzerland

The effectiveness of programmes to tackle malaria could be improved by linking them to initiatives to prevent other diseases

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The global community has committed itself to halving the morbidity and mortality from malaria worldwide by 2010 through the Roll Back Malaria initiative (box).¹ This goal was endorsed by the African heads of state at a summit held in Abuja, Nigeria, in April 2000.² The leaders set three targets to achieve by 2005: 60% of malaria patients to have prompt (within 24 hours of malaria attack), affordable, and appropriate treatment; 60% of all pregnant women to have access to preventive presumptive intermittent therapy; and 60% of children under 5 years and pregnant women to be sleeping under insecticide treated mosquito nets. However, progress is currently slow. We suggest how progress could be increased through linking disease control or elimination programmes under way in Africa to malaria control programmes. These programmes, many of which are based on drug donations, bring additional public health benefits to affected populations such as reduced anaemia, . . . [Full text of this article]

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