Uneasy bedfellows: Public-Private partnerships for malaria control.

ABSTRACT

It is argued that reducing poverty is likely to alleviate malaria transmission and that the way to do this is by reducing inequality. The present capitalist system (as opposed to a straightforward market) tends to erode equality and promote profit over product. This may extend to the manufacture of bednets, bought by agencies rather than individual consumers, whose products may suffer from built in obsolescence. It is argued that better quality nets that can be re-impregnated locally are both desired and required. Derek Charlwood (aka Mzshensy#1) started his career as a medical entomologist in 1974 as a Research Assistant in the laboratory of the legendary Mick Gillies. By 2012 he had risen to become a Senior Research Assistant working for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and so he is definitely ascending the career ladder. He has worked in numerous malaria endemic countries including Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, Cambodia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Mozambique and Eritrea.