Malaria is a serious health and economic problem in Africa, afflicting
more than half of the continent's population. Although HICV/AIDS, TB and
nutritional deficiencies pose major development problems on the
continent, the challenges presented by malaria are of a different kind,
because the disease is widespread, persistent and grossly underestimated
by the general population. The importance of malaria, along with
HIV/AIDS and other diseases in the development agenda, is now recognised
in Goal 6 of the Millennium Goals. This book provides the evidence
required to design and implement malaria control strategies in Africa.
The chapters analyse the nexus between poverty and malaria with a focus
on policies that can be implemented at various levels of society to
fight the disease. Malaria and Poverty in Africa is the outcome of a
research sponsored by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).
Augustin Kwasi Fosu is the Director, Economic Division of the United
Nations Commision for Africa, Addis Ababa, and former Director of
Research at the AERC, Nairobi. Germano Mwabu is Professor of Economics
at the University of Nairobi. He was co-director of the AERC project on
Poverty Income Distribution and Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.
