Eliminating malaria requires new solutions
Melbourne, Feb 20 (360info) Every minute, more than 400 people develop malaria, and around every minute, a person dies because of it. Most likely, it’s a child under five years old in sub-Saharan Africa. Children in Africa account for around 70 per cent of malaria deaths, although there are substantial burdens of the disease in the Asia-Pacific and parts of the Americas. Yet despite the risk malaria poses to 40 per cent of the world’s population and ambitious targets being set to eliminate it, progress in reducing the global burden of the disease has stalled since around 2015. Alarmingly, the