PHM-Exch> Oxfam paper :Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility?malaria endangers public health

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Mohga Kamal-Yanni <mkamalyanni at oxfam.org.uk>


*Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine
Facility–malaria endangers public health*

The Affordable Medicine Facility–malaria has shown no evidence that it has
saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather,
this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and
shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public
health and could skew investment away from effective solutions. Evidence
shows that a public-public partnership between community health workers and
primary health care facilities can fight malaria and deliver on other
public health outcomes. But will donors listen to the evidence?

http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/salt-sugar-and-malaria-pills-how-the-affordable-medicine-facilitymalaria-endang-249615

Executive summary  also available in French and Spanish.

You may also be interested in reading about it in the following:

*http://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2012/10/malaria-report#.UIetrsZXhGA.twitter*<http://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2012/10/malaria-report#.UIetrsZXhGA.twitter>
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