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Malaria vaccines for children: and now there are two In 2021, nearly half of the world's population lived at risk from malaria, with over 600 000 deaths annually, of which over 95% occur in the WHO African region and 80% of these in children younger than 5 years 1 WHO recommends several preventive and curative interventions that, when used together, can greatly reduce malaria illness and death, including effective vector control, chemoprevention
Inching closer to malaria elimination | WHO | Regional Office . . . In 2021, the country recorded a 93% reduction in malaria cases This achievement resulted directly from ongoing intensified efforts to ensure access to evidence-based, targeted interventions aimed at interrupting malaria transmission, as well as eliminating the malaria parasite from the population
Rise in TB deaths another fallout from the pandemic, WHO . . . The number of people newly diagnosed fell from 7 1 million in 2019 to 5 8 million in 2020, according to the latest Global TB report Although there was a partial recovery to 6 4 million last year, this was still well below pre-pandemic levels
Malaria: One of the leading causes of child deaths, but . . . The World Health Organization estimates that 241 million people contract the disease every year 1 Only a small fraction of malaria victims die from it, but those who die are the very weakest – about three out of four malaria victims are children 2 Malaria is one of the leading causes of child mortality; it kills about half a million children
Malaria deaths, once declining, have stalled, but there’s . . . Malaria is still a major health problem, especially in tropical and subtropical countries It infects more than 200 million people every year Last year alone, it killed more than 600,000 people, mostly young children in Africa It’s a huge burden for public health Since the beginning of this century, we thought that malaria eradication was possible, [as] malaria numbers were going down
WHO prequalifies a second malaria vaccine, a significant . . . Globally, in 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases and 608 000 malaria deaths across 85 countries The prequalification of the world’s second malaria vaccine, developed by Oxford University and manufactured by Serum Institute of India, is poised to expand access to malaria prevention through vaccination