It seems that a coalition of organizations and governments leaded by the UK government will pre-buy millions of the malaria vaccine the Spanish researcher Pedro Alonso is evaluating for GSK ensuring with it it's distribution in third world countries that suffer this disease. I wonder what would happen if all the coalitions were like this one.
The government would offer to buy enough malaria vaccine to immunize 873 million people for HIV/AIDS, 642 million people for malaria, and 1,534 million people for tuberculosis in covered countries over ten years. The commitment would be backed by a legally binding contract. In the base case scenario, 2643 million DALYs would be saved for HIV/AIDS, 1,114 million DALYs would be saved for malaria, and 983 million DALYs would be saved for tuberculosis. (This is equivalent to 89 million lives for HIV/AIDS, 37 million for malaria, and 33 million lives for tuberculosis.)
This is by far a better way of erradicating malaria than previous campaigns.
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