US health spending up; medicare expanded

M Catton - CMAJ, 2005 - Can Med Assoc
At least 50 million malaria patient a year could benefit from the first new drug developed by
the 2-year-old Drugs for Neglected Disease initiative (DNDi). A patent-free, fixeddose …

A global subsidy: key to affordable drugs for malaria?

R Laxminarayan, H Gelband - Health Affairs, 2009 - healthaffairs.org
The global fight against malaria has been continually challenged by poor access to
affordable, effective medicine. Growing resistance to chloroquine, the traditional treatment …

New drug formulations offer hope for easing global burden of malaria

R Voelker - JAMA, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
ACOMPLEX MIX OF FACTORS—lack of funds and political will, drug shortages, and
complicated drug regimens—have stood in the way of more effective malaria treatment in …

[HTML][HTML] A global subsidy for antimalarial drugs

H Gelband, A Seiter - … and Defeating the Intolerable Burden of …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In 2004, the Institute of Medicine concluded that a global high-level subsidy was the best
way to make effective antimalarial drugs—currently, artemisinin-combination therapies …

A path to an optimal future for the Affordable Medicines Facility–malaria

O Sabot, M Gordon, B Moonen… - Health policy and …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed a simple solution to a pressing global
problem (Arrow et al. 2004). The price of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) …

Economic access to effective drugs for falciparum malaria

CB Panosian - Clinical infectious diseases, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The increasing death toll from drug-resistant falciparum malaria is cause for international
concern. In 2002, the US Agency for International Development commissioned the Institute …

[HTML][HTML] Piloting the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria: what will success look like?

G Yamey, M Schäferhoff… - Bulletin of the World …, 2012 - SciELO Public Health
The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria is an innovative financing mechanism, managed
by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This initiative aims to increase …

[HTML][HTML] Maximizing the Effective Use of Antimalarial Drugs

KJ Arrow, C Panosian, H Gelband - … of Malaria Drugs in an Age …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The success or failure of any public health program is largely determined by the public's
effective use of the services offered. This principle is especially relevant in treating malaria …

Commentary: learning all the lessons: expanding access to malaria diagnosis and treatment

T von Schoen-Angerer - Journal of Public Health Policy, 2013 - Springer
An independent evaluation of the Affordable Medicine Facility for malaria (AMFm) pilot
phase has hailed it as a success, but important limitations and unanswered questions …

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

H Gelband, CB Panosian, KJ Arrow - 2004 - books.google.com
For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …