5 Actual Malaria

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Who is most affected by Malaria?
Women and children.
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How many people does malaria kill each year?
1 million
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What does the WHOs Roll Back Malaria program seek to do?
Eradicate Malaria at it's source
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How?
By increasing national funding to find a vaccine.
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Is this likely?
Yes. Scientists believe that an effective vaccine is only a couple of years away.
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Why might this not be discovered for longer?
Countries don't want to spend the money as the beneficiaries of the vaccine are poor > can't pay for it.
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What are the two market failures preventing vaccine creation?
Michael Kremer: 1) incentive to wait for other countries to do it. Saving money and will reap the benefits of it's discovery anyway. 2) fear that success will cause them to be pushed to lower prices.
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