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Accepted Paper:
Mending and bending antimalarial drug innovation at times of emerging multi-drug resistance in Southeast Asia
Birgit Ruth Buergi
(Independent)
Paper short abstract:
See below.
Paper long abstract:
First signs of artemisinin resistance in P. falciparum malaria along the Cambodia-Thailand border threaten the vision of a malaria-free world. The international malaria community has therefore renewed calls for sustained financial investment in malaria eradication to avert a potential global health disaster. The controversially discussed question of what the world would be with, or without, the introduction of a co-buyer based drug subsidy for antimalarials, brings into perspective its underlying symbolic logic embossed in the logo to be printed on the packaging of artemisinin-based combination therapies that will be channelled through the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria. Genealogies of health crises have their own theoretical appeal. My ethnographic analysis however, has a different take on the world's cradle of antimalarial drug resistance.