$100 billion for malaria prevention and treatment
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This week in Addis, governments agreed to pledge $100 billion in malaria prevention and treatment.
The report cites the work of the Copenhagen Consensus, stating that
cost-benefit assessment conducted on the goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda also found robust evidence that the economic benefits of reversing the spread of malaria and reducing annual malaria deaths by 95% would be 15 times higher than the costs, an ROI that it classified as “phenomenal”.
You can downloaded the press release from Roll Back Malaria here or read more about the initiative in the article "$100B Plan Seeks to Cut Malaria Cases, Deaths by 90 Percent."