Researchers Must Focus on Diseases of Poor ALL EDITIONS

Except in the case of HIV research, most funding is allocated for health issues confronted primarily by wealthy countries. Each year, spending on malaria research amounts to $84 million, or $42 per fatality, but funding for asthma research is about $800 million annually, or $500 per fatality. Althou...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Franklin Huang and Matt Stremlau. Adrian Peracchio is a member of Newsdays editorial board
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 06.05.2002
EditionCombined editions
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Summary:Except in the case of HIV research, most funding is allocated for health issues confronted primarily by wealthy countries. Each year, spending on malaria research amounts to $84 million, or $42 per fatality, but funding for asthma research is about $800 million annually, or $500 per fatality. Although asthma is a serious health concern, estimates suggest that malaria saps the collective economic strength of sub-Saharan Africa by as much as 50 percent a year. Graduate school curricula should reflect global needs and realities by designing classes preparing students to eradicate diseases that threaten the health of the majority of the world's population. Without this commitment to training truly globally minded scientists, a vaccine for malaria may never be developed.