High levels of pathogen resistance are rendering current antibiotics obsolete. Coupled with insufficient investment in discovering new treatments, multidrug-resistant infections are an increasingly urgent public health concern. To curb the growth of antibiotic resistance and prevent major...

Objective To determine the cost effectiveness of selected malaria control interventions in the context of reaching the millennium development goals for malaria. Design Generalised cost effectiveness analysis. Data sources Efficacy data came from the literature and authors' calculations supported...

Background Each year, several thousand cases of malaria occur in south-central Vietnam. Evidence from elsewhere suggests that malaria can have an economic impact on the household as the illness prevents households from completing their normal, physically demanding, productive duties such as...