Of Budgets and Bednets: Improving Malaria Spending

Earlier this year, the global burden of malaria made the news when a study in the Lancet rolled out new malaria mortality estimates. The findings suggested that malaria may cause as many as 1.24 million deaths annually—previous estimates had concluded that malaria claimed the lives of just half this number. The higher estimates of disease burden brought renewed attention to the current resources available to combat malaria, a disease most often prevalent among the poor and vulnerable in many developing countries.