In 2021, the WHO said there were an estimated 247 million cases worldwide and 619,000 deaths attributed to malaria. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven “very sharp” rises in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25.rose four-fold to 1.6 million, according to the World Health Organisation .
“So you have these extreme weather events, whether flooding in Pakistan, or the cyclone in Malawi, leaving lots of stagnant water around the place.Mr Sands said World Malaria Day was usually an opportunity to “celebrate the progress we have made”.The dramatic increase in cases caused by the climate-change-driven weather disasters illustrated the need to “get ahead of this” now, he said.
Mr Sands said there had been some progress made in the fight against malaria but stressed that a child still dies of the disease every minute. But Mr Sands, the fund’s executive director, cautioned that the vaccines should not be seen as a “silver bullet”. “It’s all about having services that can diagnose and provide treatment... that means you need community health workers in every village, who actually have the tools to test and to treat,” he said.
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