China’s extraordinary achievement in bringing 30 million malaria cases a year to zero over the course of seven decades shows the life-saving progress a country can make when it combines a strong commitment to addressing public health challenges with long-term investment in innovation. Since it began operations in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has worked side-by-side with China in its efforts to eliminate malaria. It invested $114 million in China’s national malaria response from 2003 to 2013. It has also partnered to fight HIV and tuberculosis in China with investments totaling $690 million over the same period. These joint efforts have borne fruit, as China successfully eradicated malaria in the country this year. In recent years, China has become a donor and strategic partner of the Global Fund. It is also a major supplier of health products to implementing countries. Today, the Global Fund dedicates nearly 50 percent of the amount allocated for antimalarial medicines to help lower-income countries fight malaria with anti-malarial drugs from China. What’s more, China provides 100 percent of the drugs procured for seasonal malaria chemoprevention for children under the age of 5. There is a lot we can learn from… Read full this story
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