Will a Global Subsidy of Artemisinin-Based Combination Treatment (ACT) for Malaria Delay the Emergence of Resistance and Save Lives?

Will a Global Subsidy of Artemisinin-Based Combination Treatment (ACT) for Malaria Delay the Emergence of Resistance and Save Lives?

Artemisinin-based combination treatments (ACTs) are seen as an important tool in the global effort to roll back malaria. With rapidly increasing parasite resistance to chloroquine in many parts of the world, there is greater international recognition of the need for both a different antimalarial and...

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Main Authors: Laxminarayan, Ramanan, Over, Mead, Smith, David L.
Format: Publications & Research
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
CLIMATE
COMMON PROPERTY
CONSUMER CHOICE
CONSUMERS
CROWDING OUT
DEATH RATE
DEMAND CURVES
DEMAND ELASTICITY
ECONOMETRICS
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF DEMAND
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
EPILEPSY
EQUILIBRIUM
FISHERIES
FUTURE RESEARCH
HEALTH CARE
IMMUNITY
INCOME
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
INTERVENTION
MALARIA
MARGINAL COST
MARGINAL COSTS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MORBIDITY
MORTALITY
NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES
NUTRITION
PARTNERSHIP
PATIENTS
PRICE DECREASES
PRICE ELASTICITIES
PRICE ELASTICITY
PRICE SUBSIDIES
PRODUCERS
PUBLIC GOOD
PUBLIC GOODS
SPREAD
STREAMS
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
SUBSTITUTION
SUBSTITUTION ELASTICITIES
SUPPLIERS
TRADEOFFS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8195

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