Research Funding In Sub-Saharan Africa Needs To ‘Reflect True Disease…

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With the disease burden of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria expected to make up less than 15 percent of the total disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2030, and non-communicable diseases to account for nearly 40 percent of the total in the region, “[a] revision of the approach to research and health care in SSA is therefore urgently needed, but international donors and health communities have generally been slow to respond to the changing environment,” Ole Olesen and M. Iqbal Parker of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in South Africa write in a commentary in Tropical Medicine & International Health. “Private and public funding for health research in Africa remains therefore disproportionately focused on the three major infectious diseases, whereas only smaller amounts have been allocated to confront other diseases,” they write and provide examples.

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Posted by Kaiser GH Update on Jun 21 2012. Filed under Aid, Infectious Disease, Kaiser's Global Health Update, Malaria, Technology, Tuberculosis. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry