Eliminating malaria: how close can we get?

Bill Gates’s ambitious vision for wiping malaria off the world map is not only possible but it is the strategic approach we should take

Ambition and innovation have driven progress throughout the history of humankind. Both are fundamental pillars of the strategic vision Bill Gates articulated for ending malaria on Sunday, when he addressed the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Thanks to more than a decade of dramatic progress in reducing cases of and deaths from malaria, such an ambitious goal – to remove malaria from the whole planet – backed by investment and innovation in the tools and solutions we use to fight the world’s oldest disease, is something we can conceivably achieve in our lifetimes.

Disponível em: <http://www.theguardian.com/global-

development/povertymatters/ 2014/nov/03/eliminating-malaria-bill-gates-vaccines>. Acesso em: 16 out. 2014.

De acordo com o texto, a malária é uma das doenças