TY  - JOUR
AU  - Teklehaimanot,Awash
AU  - McCord,Gordon C.
AU  - Sachs,Jeffrey D.
TI  - Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13664
PY  - 2007
Y2  - December 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13664
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13664.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Awash Teklehaimanot
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
2910 Broadway
Hogan Hall Mail Code: 3277
New York, NY 10025
E-Mail: at2076@columbia.edu

Gordon C. McCord
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
314 Low Library
535 West 116th Street, MC 4327
New York, NY  10027
E-Mail: gm2101@columbia.edu

Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
314 Low Library
535 West 116th Street, MC 4327
New York, NY  10027
Tel: 212/854-8704
Fax: 212/854-8702
E-Mail: sachs@columbia.edu
AB  - This paper estimates the number of people at risk of contracting malaria in Africa using GIS methods and the disease's epidemiologic characteristics. It then estimates yearly costs of covering the population at risk with the package of interventions (differing by level of malaria endemicity and differing for rural and urban populations) for malaria as recommended by the UN Millennium Project. These projected costs are calculated assuming a ramp-up of coverage to full coverage by 2008, and then projected out through 2015 to give a year-by-year cost of meeting the Millennium Development Goal for reducing the burden of malaria by 75% We conclude that the cost of comprehensive malaria control for Africa is US$3.0 billion per year on average, or around US$4.02 per African at risk. 
ER  -