Malaria control, the cold war, and the postwar reorganization of international assistance

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ID2151034
AuthorsSocrates Litsio (0000-0002-8381-117X, World Health Organization, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume17
Issue3
Pages255-278
Publication date1997-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.1997.9966140
PMID9311226
OpenAlexW2032048772
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited12

This article explores the control of rural malaria shortly before and after World War II. During this period rural malaria moved from being an almost impossible problem to control to one which many believed could be eradicated. However, instead of rural development serving as an operational and economic framework for malaria control, as some had advocated before the war, malaria control moved toward independence in the form of a global eradication campaign. Whereas this transition is generally portrayed strictly in terms of the success of DDT, I document how various factors, the Cold War in particular, contributed to the "inevitability" of eradication

Cold war · Control (management · Development economics · Economics · Malaria · Management · Political science · Politics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Medicine

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