PHA-Exchange> Roll Back Malaria failure (5)

[Claudio]

...and a bit more
Claudio

From: "Peter Burgess" <Profitinafrica at aol.com>

> Roll Back Malaria failure (5)
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> Am I missing something?
> http://www.unfoundation.org/media_center/press/2005/pr_042605.asp
> 
> Raising US$ 500,000, or with matching funds US$ 600,000 is valu-
> able... as long as it is used in a good way. Getting a group in
> Manhattan to raise this kind of money should be pretty easy if
> they were really engaged... but of course they are not.
> 
> But this amount from the "donors"... it's ridiculous. Remind me.
> How much was mobilized for the tsunami disaster in a period of 2
> weeks? (It's another question where it is now).
> 
> The job ought to be to raise US$ 5 billion so that the Global
> Fund (GFATM) can do a meaningful amount of work.
> 
> And another job is to make sure that ALL the funds are used in
> valuable ways and not just used to enrich participants with lit-
> tle left for the beneficiaries, something that is sadly missing
> at this stage of history in the official relief and development
> assistance (ORDA) community including GFATM.
> 
> What are the funds going to be used for?...
> ... bednets?
> ... mosquito control?
> ... curative medication?
> ... prophylactic medication?
> ... study?
> ... research?
> 
> How much is going to go to beneficiaries and initiatives on the
> ground? How much is going to get consumed by intermediaries and
> overheads? How much is going to be blatantly mis-appropriated?
> How much will disappear through corporate profiteering?
> 
> Can anyone give me an estimate of how much is needed to address
> the malaria crisis country by country and year by year for the
> next 10 years... and then some idea of how these numbers would
> change if the right set of initiatives were to be implemented
> rather than just any old initiative?
> 
> Peter Burgess
> mailto:Profitinafrica at aol.com