2015-04-25 10:50:00

Call to address gaps in prevention and treatment of Malaria


 

(Vatican Radio) The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria.

It says that despite a reduction in Malaria cases and deaths in the last 14 years, more than half a million die each year from the disease.

It is estimated that at least three quarters of malaria deaths occur in children under 5.

Malaria is caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes, but is both preventable and curable.

Eighty per cent of cases of the disease worldwide are located in sub Saharan Africa.

The WHO has developed a new global malaria strategy from  2016-2030 which will be reviewed by the World Health Assembly in May 2015.

The new strategy sets the target of reducing the disease burden by 40% by 2020, and by at least 90% by 2030.








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