World Malaria Day, 25 April 2022 ( theme: “Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives”)

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Malaria is a disease that is transmitted from person to person by infected mosquitoes. The bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito transmits a parasite that enters the victim’s blood system and travels into the person’s liver where the parasite reproduces. There the parasite causes a high fever that involves shaking chills and pain. In the worst cases malaria leads to coma and death.

The infection is very common in certain parts of the world.

It's found in tropical regions, including:

1). large areas of Africa and Asia
2). Central and South America
3). Dominican Republic and Haiti
4). parts of the Middle East
5). some Pacific islands

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Message from WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti

World Malaria Day is marked annually on 25 April to focus global attention on malaria, and its devastating impact on families, communities and societal development, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(https://www.afro.who.int/regional-director/speeches-messages/world-malaria-day-2022)

This year’s theme, “Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives”, aligns with my call to urgently scale up innovation and the deployment of new tools in the fight against malaria, while advocating for equitable access to malaria prevention and treatment, within the context of building health system resilience.

Malaria has a significant impact on the health of infants, young children, and pregnant women worldwide. More than 800,000 African children under the age of five die of malaria each year. Malaria also contributes to malnutrition in children, which indirectly causes the death of half of all children under the age of five throughout the world.

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Always clean your environment, Over the last 2 decades, WHO has recommended malaria prevention tools and strategies, including effective vector control and the use of preventive antimalarial drugs has had a major impact in reducing the global burden of this disease.

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