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China provides $320,000 for Guangzhou University malaria study in Comoros (Linked to Record ID#30101, #57366, #57367, #34813)

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$531,701
Commitment Year•2007Country of Activity•ComorosSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

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Implementation

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Commitment date
Jun 1, 2007

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A team of Chinese medical researchers proposed to take the anti-malaria drug artemisinin and dispense it in combination with another drug as a mass treatment to the 40,000 people living on Moheli Island in Comoros. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7174450.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Comoros

Loan desecription

China provides $320,000 for Guangzhou University malaria study in Comoros (Linked to Record ID#30101, #57366, #57367, #34813)

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In June of 2007, Li Guoqiao and a team of Chinese medical researchers from the Tropical Medicine Institute at the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine proposed to take the anti-malaria drug artemisinin and dispense it in combination with another drug as a mass treatment to the 40,000 people living on Moheli Island in Comoros. The World Health Organization offered to support the Chinese government-funded project. Beijing would pay the estimated $320,000 for the drugs used in the Moheli treatments and would also meet the cost of additional drugs used to clear up remaining infections over a five-year period, according to World Health Organization officials. In December of 2010, it was reported that 11 Chinese researchers had initiated the project. ID #30101 contains details of the final project implementation. According to a 2011 Working Series report, the highest incidence is 94.4 per cent and malaria is the most common cause of death in children under the age of five. In 2007, a joint project between Moheliand the Tropical Medicine Institute at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (GUTCM) in southern China was started with the purpose of eradicating the parasite from the human body. This project has been linked to Record IDs #30101, #57366, #57367, and #34813 because they all relate to anti malaria efforts made by China in Comoros as part of the campaign initiated by this project.