Last year, the number of new cases studied 14 million and the number of deaths of 69,000. A “considerable” regression, according to the World Health Organization.
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The year 2020 was marked by nearly 70,000 additional malaria-related deaths compared to 2019. “The worst scenario did not happen,” tried to positivate Pedro Alonso, Director of the Program Global Malaria Control of the Modical Organization of Health (WHO), presenting the data from the World Report 2021 on this infectious disease, made public Monday 6 December. WHO had anticipated an increase in the number of malaria deaths between 46,000 and 90,000 in 2020, due to the CVIV-19 pandemic.
But, even if it’s the low range of this estimate that has been verified, “the news on the forehead of malaria are not good,” summarizes Pierre Buffet, Professor at the University of Paris and Consultant at Medical Center of the Pasteur Institute. In 2020, the estimated number of cases amounted to $ 241 million, an increase of nearly 14 million compared to the previous year. The number of deaths attributable to malaria reached 627,000, or 69,000 additional deaths compared to 2019 – a 12% increase for sub-Saharan Africa.
- in 2030, the objectives of the Global WHO strategy will not be reached
WHO’s Global Strategy for the 2016-2030 period is on a bad slope. The prospect set in 2015 – achieve in 2030 a global decline of 90% of malaria incidence and death rates – continues to move away. “The announcement of the elimination of malaria is remote 10 years in 10 years,” says Bruno Pradines, the Institute for Biomedical Research of the Armies and the National Malaria Reference Center.
The last two decades have been marked by a succession of victories and then reverse. Between 2000 and 2015, first, progress has been spectacular. Strengthened malaria control services have enabled an overall fall of 27% of the new cases of new cases and 51% of the disease-related mortality rate, in populations exposed. Millions of death have been avoided. “These progress were first obtained in Latin America and Asia, where the fight was easier,” Dr. Marc Thellier analyzes Dr. Marc Thellier, the National Malaria Reference Center, at the Pitié-Salpestriere Hospital (AP -HP, Paris). But from 2014, these progress stagnated, particularly in Africa. Mortality marked the step, even posting a rise in 2017, with 8,000 additional deaths.
Dr. Marc Thellier continues:
“With sub-Saharan Africa, we enter the hard. It is the region where the transmission of the disease is the most intense, where the parasite [plasmodium falciparum] presents the most genetic diversity and where the systems of health are the most fragile. “
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