The UN agency against malaria, called Rock back malaria, has unveiled its new strategy to eradicate the scourge of malaria. This potentially fatal disease is caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. In 2015, the disease was identified in 214 million people and caused 472,000 deaths, the majority of which were African children under the age of five, recalls the WHO.
This Monday, July 13, the international community is looking into how to prevent this carnage on the occasion of the Third International Conference on Financing International Development. The objective for 2016-2030, defined in the “Global Technical Strategy against malaria“, is to reduce malaria-related mortality and incidence rates by 90% compared to 2015.
Prevention efforts and the provision of preventive treatments have reduced mortality by 58% over the past fifteen years. This saved 6.2 million lives. However, if a long way has been covered, the road is still long.
A substantial return on investment
To overcome it, it is planned to invest 100 billion dollars, “to which will be added 10 billion dollars to finance research and development of innovative solutions and in particular new drugs and insecticides”, details the UN. in a press release taken up by Why doctor. These projects would result in substantial progress since their success would save almost 3 billion cases of contamination and 10 million lives. “The world could thus generate a staggering amount of 4,000 billion dollars of additional economic production over the period 2016-2030”, says the agency Roll Back Malaria.
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