Roll Back Malaria: an historical footnote

Prompted by the 20th anniversary of Roll Back Malaria, the author recalls hypotheses concerning a major new initiative to control malaria in Africa put forward by WHO AFRO and the World Bank in 1996. These hypotheses, and the reactions to them of a panel of 18 experts, are reviewed and contrasted to...

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Autor principal: Feachem, Sir Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30453982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2582-0
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spelling pubmed-62458602018-11-26 Roll Back Malaria: an historical footnote Feachem, Sir Richard Malar J Commentary Prompted by the 20th anniversary of Roll Back Malaria, the author recalls hypotheses concerning a major new initiative to control malaria in Africa put forward by WHO AFRO and the World Bank in 1996. These hypotheses, and the reactions to them of a panel of 18 experts, are reviewed and contrasted to the rapid progress and high ambition that characterize the field of malaria today. BioMed Central 2018-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6245860/ /pubmed/30453982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2582-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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