Saving lives, buying time economics of malaria drugs in an age of resistance

Title:

Author:

Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, 1921-

ISBN:

9780309532334

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2004.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 364 p.) : ill.

Contents:

Malaria today -- The cost and cost-effectiveness of antimalarial drugs -- The case for a global subsidy of antimalarial drugs -- An international system for procuring antimalarial drugs -- A brief history of malaria -- The parasite, the mosquito, and the disease -- The human and economic burden of malaria -- Malaria control -- Antimalarial drugs and drug resistance -- Research and development for new antimalarial drugs -- Maximizing the effective use of antimalarial drugs.

Subject Term:

Antimalarials -- Economic aspects.

Pharmaceutical policy.

Drug resistance in microorganisms.

Malaria -- drug therapy.

Antimalarials -- economics.

Antimalarials -- therapeutic use.