The Economic Burden of Malaria: Cross-Country Evidence
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چکیده
Malaria and poverty are intimately connected. As Nobel Laureate in Medicine T.H. Weller (1958: 497) noted, “It has long been recognized that a malarious community is an impoverished community.” Weller could have said the same for malarious countries. Malaria is most intractable for countries in the poorest continent, Africa. The only parts of Africa free of malaria are the northern and southern extremes, which have the richest countries on the continent. India, the country with the greatest number of poor people in the world, has a serious malaria problem. Haiti has the worst malaria in the Western Hemisphere, and it is the poorest country in the hemisphere.
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