Despite being one of the world's tiniest creatures, the mosquito has long been one of the deadliest in many regions of the globe.
The most recent World Malaria Report, released in December 2022, estimates that malaria claimed 619,000 lives worldwide in 2021 and resulted in 247 million new cases.
Despite being a worldwide problem, 95% of all malaria cases are in the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), and approximately 80% of malaria deaths there occur in children under the age of five.
World Malaria Day is being observed today, April 25, with the slogan "Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, innovate, and Implement."
According to this topic, WHO focuses on the third "i" of implementation, emphasizing the significance of reaching disadvantaged communities using the current instruments and approaches.
Day Against Malaria
People who contract malaria, an acute fever sickness brought on by plasmodium parasites, are bitten by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.
Nearly half of the world's population is susceptible to malaria, despite the fact that it can be avoided and treated.
Serious malaria can strike some people more easily than others.
Pregnant women, children under the age of five, HIV/AIDS patients, and infants and young children are at special risk.
People who enter regions with high malaria transmission but have not developed partial protection from repeated exposure to the illness are among the other susceptible populations. individuals who do not use chemopreventive medications, such as migrants, those living in nomadic communities, and tourists.
global objectives
The WHO claims that the world is not on pace to meet two important goals of the WHO Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 201630, namely, a 90% reduction in global malaria case incidence by 2030 and a 90% reduction in the worldwide malaria fatality rate.
To achieve these goals and Target 3.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which calls for the eradication of malaria by 2030, it is thus necessary to take immediate and coordinated action.
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