Paltry budgets, faulty strategies and government mismanagement have hamstrung past efforts to combat the disease [malaria]. In Uganda, population 28 million, not one of the 1.8 million nets approved more than two years ago by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has yet arrived. The World Bank, after pledging to halve malaria deaths in Africa six years ago, had let its staff working on the disease dwindle to zero. And the United States Agency for International Development admitted to outraged senators last year that it spent more on high-priced consultants than on life-saving commodities, like mosquito nets that cost $5.75 apiece and last up to five years. (New York Times, Wednesday)
Maybe it’s not the strategy but the inherent flaws of government solutions.
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