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

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. Loan applications and disbursements are still being received and processed as the projects continue to evolve. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation are in place to ensure project continuity.