Published 22 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2513
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2513

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US is now "past the rhetoric" in fighting malaria worldwide

Bob Roehr

1 Washington, DC

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Elimination of malaria had been neglected for nearly half a century until speeches by Bill and Melinda Gates in October 2007 put it back on the agenda, the international public health expert Richard Feachem claimed at a 17 June gathering in Washington, DC, that focused on US strategy in combating malaria around the world.

"Their call to arms has changed the nature of the international discussion in a very positive way," said Sir Richard, now director of the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco.

The United States is moving from "almost a disaster response implementation programme into a health development programme," said Timothy Ziemer, who heads the US president’s malaria initiative, a $1.2bn (£0.7bn; {euro}0.9bn) programme that is nearing the end of its five year cycle.

Admiral Ziemer said that the US has realised that health care is "a very important strategic component" of diplomacy and . . . [Full text of this article]


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