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Africa: Africa Continues to Shoulder Heaviest Malaria Burden - WHO Report
allAfrica, 8 December 2022
Each year, the World Health Organization, WHO's World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination… Read more »
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Africa: Despite Continued Impact of Covid-19, Malaria Cases and Deaths Remained Stable in 2021
WHO, 8 December 2022
New data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that countries around the world largely held the line against further setbacks to malaria prevention, testing… Read more »
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Chad: Chad's Floods Deepen a Humanitarian Crisis With High Risk of Disease Outbreaks
MSF, 5 December 2022
Major floods have hit central and southern Chad since mid-August, with the latest floods affecting the capital, N'Djamena, where rivers have burst their banks and whole… Read more »
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Malawi: WHO, Malawi Roll Out Children's Malaria Vaccine
VOA, 30 November 2022
Malawi and the World Health Organization are rolling out a new malaria vaccine for young children that backers say will reduce deaths from the mosquito-borne disease. Read more »
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Malawi: Malawi Reduces Malaria Deaths By 50 Percent
Nyasa Times, 1 December 2022
Officials from the ministry of health say Malawi has cut malaria deaths by 50 percent from 23 deaths per 100,000 population in 2016 to 12 deaths per 100,000 in 2021. Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Unveils Report On Malaria, Says Disease Prevalent in Rural Areas
This Day, 1 December 2022
The federal government yesterday commenced the dissemination of the 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator survey (NMIS) report. Read more »
Africa Continues to Shoulder Heaviest Malaria Burden - WHO Report
Each year the World Health Organization (WHO) provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across the globe.
WHO, in its annual malaria report, new data that shows that countries around the world largely held the line against further setbacks to malaria prevention, testing, and treatment services in 2021. There have been about 619,000 people killed by malaria globally in 2021, compared to 625,000 in the first year of the pandemic (2020).Before the pandemic struck, the number of deaths stood at 568,000.
WHO says that malaria is the number one killer of children in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for about 80% of all malaria deaths of children under age 5 every year.
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Malawi has begun vaccinating children as part of a world-first, large-scale campaign against malaria using the RTS,S vaccine which was tested in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. It Read more »
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Ethiopian scientist Fitsum Tadesse has presented research that suggests a malaria outbreak in the city of Dire Dawa was strongly linked to the invasive Anopheles stephensi mosquito ... Read more »
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Zanzibar is fully committed to working with development partners to make the island malaria-free by 2027, Health Minister Nassor Ahmed Mazrui has said. Mazrui said the Isle has ... Read more »
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The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced at its seventh Replenishment Conference hosted in New York by U.S. President Joe Biden, that it raised a total ... Read more »
MSF teams treating the different water points in the village of Ara in the commune of Bandé in the department of Magaria in south of Niger - since June 2021, we launched water treatment activities in 15 villages in the commune of Bandé in Magaria, south of Niger, to prevent the development of the mosquito larvae into full grown mosquitoes aiming at decreasing the malaria cases (file photo).
