Tribune. In 2020, out of the 241 million cases of declared malaria, 627,000 people died of the disease. These are 14 million additional cases and 47,000 more deaths than in 2019, as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared in its Annual report published in December 2021 . Pregnant women and children under the age of five represent 80 % of the deaths due to malaria. Sub -Saharan Africa records 95 % of malaria cases and 96 % of deaths related to the disease.
Today, every minute, a child under the age of five dies of malaria in the world. If this disease – transmitted by the bite of the infected female of the Anopheles mosquito – still decimated children and pregnant women in Europe or North America, investments in the fight against malaria would undoubtedly have been as fast and massive as ‘They were able to be for the covid-19.
a disease of the poor
Let’s not ourselves ourselves. It is indeed a disease of the poor, which affects the vast majority of the populations most distant from health systems. Eloigated geographically, due to persistent discrimination, for lack of consideration on the part of local, regional, national, international authorities.
Progress has however been made over the past two decades. In the early 2000s, malaria resulted in nearly 900,000 people. But for five years, the fight against malaria has stagnated. It even fell back, in particular due to the COVVI-19 pandemic which hampered the smooth running of the supply of anti-actoral wrestling products and disrupted the prevention services.
In countries where the malaria burden is highest – mainly in sub -Saharan Africa – the results tend to decrease. These regions face other threats, health, humanitarian, climatic. The latter is particularly concerned with us. Climate change in particular leads to the rise in floods and promote the emergence of mosquitoes vectors of malaria. The global warming will undoubtedly lead to an upsurge and propagation of vector diseases, such as malaria, in certain regions of the world.
The COVVI-19 has also strongly disrupted the programs to combat malaria. From the start of the pandemic, the global fund [ The Global Fund for Combating AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria] has implemented a mechanism for response to the health crisis and has enabled beneficiary countries to mitigate the impacts of the crisis on programs to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. At Niger and Benin , For example, more than 8 million mosquito nets have been distributed at the home of the inhabitants, in order to avoid rallies during COVID-19.
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