Next step in malaria strategy: paying for it
Following the announcement on 27 January of an ambitious new five-year plan to eliminate malaria in Cambodia, National Centre for Malaria officials and donors met again on 28 January, this time to discuss patching up a $22.8 million budget gap to fund the strategy’s first two years.
Financial estimates presented by the centre’s Dr Siv Sovannaroth show that only $26.1 million of the $48.9 million projected budget for 2016-2017 is currently available to pay for malaria surveillance programs developed for the new policy.
