About the Authors

Roger Bate

Affiliations Africa Fighting Malaria, Washington, D. C., United States of America, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Philip Coticelli

pcoticelli@fightingmalaria.org

Affiliation Africa Fighting Malaria, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Richard Tren

Affiliation Africa Fighting Malaria, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Amir Attaran

Affiliation Institute of Population Health & Faculties of Law and Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

In the past five years Roger Bate and Amir Attaran received travel grants from pharmaceutical company Novartis, and Amir Attaran received a consulting fee. No funding was received in respect of this research. Amir Attaran also received consulting and/or travel fees from the WHO and World Bank, and is a member of the WHO Global Malaria Programme Technical and Research Advisory Committee. No member of the study team received any funds from a competing interest for the performance of this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB. Performed the experiments: RB. Analyzed the data: RT PC RB. Wrote the paper: AA RT PC RB.