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Should higher income countries pay for malaria treatments in lower income…

- - - - "WHO notes that treating a child for malaria in Uganda with artemisinin combination therapy will cost a household the equivalent of 11 days’ income."
        
        I have taken this quote from https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/december-2016-march-2017/dying-lack-medicines
        
        In lower income countries situated in Africa are finding it difficult to access the sorts of medicines that the need.
- - - - Uganda (10.3 million deaths), Ghana (8.8 million deaths), Democratic Republic of Congo (6.3 million deaths) Burkina Faso (6.1 million deaths)
        Kenya (5.8 million deaths)
        Zambia (4.7 million deaths) Pakistan (4.3 million deaths)
        Ethiopia (3.9 million deaths) Malawi (3.7 million deaths) Niger (3.5 million deaths)
        These are the number of reported cases of malaria in these countries. https://www.megacatch.com/mosquito-faqs/mosquito-facts.html
- - - - Temperature has the ability to affect the rate at which the parasite actually develops within the mosquito itself. The research suggests that at the optimum temperature for the malaria virus to develop (40 degrees Celsius)