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The fight against malaria must continue amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
The scale down of malaria control activities due to the COVID-19 outbreak risks to derail the gains achieved and might set us back to similar levels of malaria death as 20 years ago, a recent modelling by WHO and partners warns. Building a strong partnership for malaria control World Malaria Day serves as an opportune...
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Malaria elimination agenda must include the media
World Malaria Day 2020 will occur amid COVID-19. The world will nevertheless need reminding that malaria killed 405,000 million people in 2018 and that zero malaria starts with every one of us. COVID-19: a threat against malaria? The fight against malaria must continue with all the energy needed to kick out the disease. But the...
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The malaria season is coming – we must continue to protect children at risk
As anxiety around the COVID-19 pandemic is felt around the globe, the voices of those at risk of malaria ring in parallel – voices that often go unheard. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria takes a child’s life every two minutes. The vast majority of incidence and mortality occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where...
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Going digital with malaria net distribution
We are on the right track to end malaria. We’ve developed tools that can rapidly identify people infected with the disease, effective medicines to cure those who are sick, and preventive approaches to stop infections before they occur. The interventions we use to prevent malaria – including long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets – are among the...
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We can’t pause the fight against Malaria
Sponsored by: To defeat malaria, we need to invest in strong, integrated healthcare systems at the heart of nations with the greatest burden. While the World Health Organization urges countries to continue their core malaria prevention, testing and treatment activities in the midst of COVID-19, there have been reports of initiatives being suspended in some...
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Using weather data to defeat malaria
The connection between climate and health is undeniable. Changing weather patterns increase transmission risk of mosquito-borne diseases, like malaria. By using data to time and target interventions, we can turn weather obstacles into opportunities. A changing climate is a threat to human health. Increases in severe weather events – like cyclones Fani in East India...
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Don’t forget malaria during COVID-19
The response to COVID-19 is – and must be – all encompassing. The worry is that efforts to protect against malaria may go off the radar, with huge implications for public health in Africa. Since the Abuja 2000 Political Declaration on Roll Back Malaria, global efforts have dramatically reduced the global malaria burden. Unprecedented partnerships...
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It is time to unite to fight against malaria
In the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, a renewed effort to end malaria has never been so vital. In the past few years, progress toward eradicating malaria has levelled off, according to the World Health Organization. Even more worrying are reports that the disease is on the rise in some high-burden countries. “A lot...
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A new global movement to accelerate the road to malaria elimination
Firm in the belief that empowered community and civil society are game-changers in health responses, we (representatives of national, regional and global malaria communities and civil society attending the First Malaria World Congress) have come together and formed the Global Civil Society for Malaria Elimination (CS4ME). Our commitment is for joint advocacy for more effective,...
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No mother should have to lose her unborn baby to malaria
Before we had any malaria preventative treatment for pregnant women at the maternity clinic, we saw too many stillborn births and miscarriages, and it was heart-breaking. Preventative treatment of malaria in pregnancy is saving lives in Ghana; we hear from Rosemund Awumi, a Community Health Nurse for Maternity at Abokobi Health Centre, Accra. “Since 2004...