Benchmarks
What is the benchmark goal?
End the endemic of malaria
Who are some of the key countries providing aid to combat malaria?
Countries with the highest GDP and "developed" countries.
Why is fragmented programming an issue in the eradicating malaria?
It's an obstacle in achieving effective and quick support in any bureaucratic structure.
How would aid impact the elimination of malaria?
More aid is needed because solutions are expensive.
Aid can be used to buy more bed nets, improve vaccines, treatments, and infrastructures.
How many dollars has the funding increased.
Funding has increased from 100 million to 2 billion.
Between 2000-2016, what was the trend in efforts to eliminate malaria?
There was a decrease of malaria related deaths globally.
Death rates have decreased by 65% for children under 5 and 60% in total.
Who are some of the key organizations providing aid to combat malaria?
UN (subsets of UN, WHO)
African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
What role does climate change make in the eradication of malaria?
As global temperature rises, regions where mosquitoes live and thrive increase, thus exposing more malaria outbreaks.
How would education benefit the elimination of malaria?
Malaria is asymptomatic and people need to be trained to recognize symptoms immediately.
Education can be used to teach people how to kill mosquitoes and prevent future breeding.
Educating individuals hits on all intersections of race, gender, socioeconomic status, because malaria can affect everyone.
Despite the increase in aid from the global communities, how can we incentives countries with higher GDP to give more aids?
Eradicating malaria will increase the productivity of the workforce worldwide, which will improve the global economy.
Countries will be able to specialize and contribute to the world economy by shifting their focus from basic survival.
How would antimicrobial resistance impact the elimination of malaria.
We cannot change evolutionary ways of bacteria, but we can provide more aid to scientists and other epistemic communities.
What role does discrimination play in eradicating malaria.
Referring back to Bottom Billion, oftentimes aid is going to middle tier countries that are not actually the most in need for aid.
If supplies are not being distributed to the most infected areas, then they are not being used effectively.
Distribution must be monitored so that it can be ensured that they are being distributed equally.