Post-tsunami Banda Aceh—on the road to recovery

Abstract

According to the Indonesian government, more than 100 000 people lost their lives in the inexorable wall of water that swept through the city on Dec 26, 2004. [...]of generous financial and in-kind contributions from public and private donors around the world, UN agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and other relief, organisations are now starting longer term rehabilitation. According to Sorensen, in Banda Aceh alone some 100 000 insecticide-treated mosquito nets, 20 000 rapid diagnostic tests for malaria, and 150 000 treatment courses of artemisinin-based combination therapy—the most effective available antimalarial treatment—have been made available by private donors and UN agencies.