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Eliminating Malaria in Africa, October 2011
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Photo 1 of 12Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfricaA new report by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, Eliminating Malaria: Learning From the Past, Looking Ahead, reveals that an increasing number of countries are setting their sights on eliminating malaria.
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Photo 2 of 12Credit: M. Hallahan/Sumitomo Chemical Co. LtdMalaria elimination was first attempted at large scale during the Global Malaria Eradication Program from 1955 to 1972. During this 17-year period, twenty countries were certified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as malaria-free. However, this number fell to only four countries in the 30 years that followed, due to a massive reduction in efforts to control the disease.
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Photo 3 of 12Credit: Ron Haviv/RBMA malaria patient in a local hospital in Mozambique. Today there are still an estimated 781,000 deaths annually from malaria, a disease which is entirely preventable and treatable, says the WHO. Malaria affects 40 percent of the world's population and hinders social and economic development among the poorest communities.
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Photo 4 of 12Credit: Ron Haviv/RBMA child undergoes malaria testing. The RBM Partnership aims to eliminate malaria by the end of 2015 in at least eight to 10 new countries. Many countries in the control phase have substantially reduced malaria morbidity and mortality and some have established or expanded malaria-free areas. This progress will require ongoing support for eventual transition to nationwide pre-elimination and elimination, the WHO says.
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Photo 5 of 12Credit: Stephenie Hollyman/WHOArtemisia annua L. in Arusha, the critical component of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), currently the most effective form of treatment.
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Photo 6 of 12Credit: Maggie Hallahan Sumitomo ChemicalLaboratory evaluation of tests and expert microscopy of samples from suspected malaria patients in Madagascar. Successful malaria elimination programmes are built on strong national leadership, commitment to high-quality staffing and programme delivery, national stability and other factors, malaria experts say.
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Photo 7 of 12Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfricaA woman works on a malaria net at the A-Z factory in Arusha.
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Photo 8 of 12Credit: SumitomoTanzanian workers making bed nets. Five million treated mosquito nets have been distributed in the country under a government initiative to control malaria.
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Photo 9 of 12Credit: Catherine Karnow/RBMNet distribution in Senegal. Over the last decade, the rapid scale-up of a variety of malaria control interventions has saved an estimated 1.1 million lives in Africa alone, and reduced deaths from malaria by 38 percent. This momentum and the results achieved have encouraged many countries to consider the next steps towards malaria elimination.
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Photo 10 of 12Credit: M. Hallahan/Sumitomo Chemical Co. LtdSchoolchildren play in a donated net. History shows that as peoples living conditions improve over the decades, malaria will slowly, steadily and surely recede, says the RBM report. Nonetheless, great progress in reducing malaria transmission and saving lives is already occurring, and programme preparations are being made for a future drive towards elimination.
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Photo 11 of 12Credit: Maggie Hallahan/Sumitomo ChemicalHang-up campaign at a school in Niayam, a village in Senegal. Countries with intense malaria transmission will require new tools and strategies to speed their advance to malaria elimination, health experts say.
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Photo 12 of 12Credit: Maggie Hallahan/Sumitomo ChemicalMother and baby protected by an insecticide-treated mosquito net. "In 2011, with the highly effective interventions we have available, no one should die from malaria," says Dr. Robert Newman, director of the Global Malaria Program of the WHO.
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