Impatient Optimists
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Kent Campbell

Title Director, Malaria Control Program
Organization PATH

Kent Campbell, MD, MPH, is director of the Malaria Control Program at PATH, which is focused on developing evidence-based national malaria control programs in the Africa region.

Posts By Kent Campbell

Malaria Gains Threatened by Global Fund Shortfall

December 21, 2011 / Kent Campbell

The possibility of ending malaria is within reach, but these dramatic gains are in jeopardy. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which provides two-thirds of the global financing for efforts to combat malaria, is facing a financial crisis due to unfulfilled donor commitments.

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Success Within Reach

October 14, 2011 / Kent Campbell

The progress we’ve achieved in the fight against malaria was unthinkable to many a decade ago. Today, the tide has turned.

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Lessons from Zambia: Malaria Can Be Stopped

June 21, 2011 / Kent Campbell

As parliamentarians from throughout southern and eastern Africa gathered in Zambia last week to renew commitments for fighting malaria and to celebrate the country’s success in fighting the disease, I took a moment to step back and reflect on just how much progress we’ve made over the past six years.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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