Contribution to costs of publishing a supplement to the 'American Journal of Tropical Medicine', entitled 'The intolerable burden of malaria: what's new, what's needed', following the MIM Pan African Conference on Malaria, Nov 2002.
Proposal for the Supplement to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: "The intolerable burden of malaria: what's new, what's needed". Each year, up to 2.7 million deaths due to malaria and over one billion episodes of clinical illness meriting antimalarial therapy occur in Africa. The papers in the supplement will examine the methodologies used to calculate the global burden of disease and the place of malaria within it; review the contribution of some of the clinical components of the burden (i.e. anemia, neurological sequelae); assess the impact of mosquito transmission on mo