Chapter category: Infectious Disease
Malaria and Structural Adjustment: Proof by Contradiction
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes for Malaria Control
Edited by: Christophe BoëteISBN: 1-58706-096-5
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Chapter authors:
Julie Castro and Damien Millet
The evolution of malaria over the last thirty years shows that far from regressing, the disease is actually in a process of reglobalisation. While health institutions confine them selves to analysing the economic impact of the pandemic, the authors call for a reposing of the problem in other terms. The unprecedented resurgence of malaria is in fact contemporary with the application of structural adjustment programmes, as devised and implemented by international financial institutions since the 1980s. An examination of these programmes reveals that they serve to organise and secure the transfer of wealth from populations in the South to the ruling classes of the South and North. Their considerable economic and social impact interferes with the determinants of malaria on several levels, and explains the resurgence of the disease. Applying solely technical solutions to the problem is therefore not enough: to reverse the trend, it is the current world economic order that must radically change.
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