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WHO & UNICEF THINGS WE MUST
KNOW ABOUT
MALARIA

• Malaria is humans, and two deaths.
a life-threatening of these species - P. • Total funding
disease caused by falciparum and P. vivax for malaria control
Plasmodium parasites - pose the greatest threat. and elimination reached
that are transmitted to people • The WHO African Region an estimated USD2.7 billion
through the bites of infected carries a disproportionately high in 2016. Contributions from
female Anopheles mosquitoes. It share of the global malaria governments of endemic
is preventable and curable. burden. In 2016, the region countries amounted
• There are fi ve was home to 90 percent of to USD800 million,
parasite species that malaria cases and 91 representing 31
cause malaria in percent of malaria percent of funding.

ALARIA - a preventable
and treatable disease
Mthat remains, in many
regions of the world as a major
public health problem.

“Every two minutes, a child dies
of malaria,” said Stefan Swartling
Peterson, UNICEF Chief of Health.
Currently 91 countries experience
ongoing malaria transmission.
Almost half the world’s population -
about 3.2 billion people - are at risk Sierra Leone is one of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa where more than a
of malaria. In 2016 alone, 216 million quarter of the population is infected with malaria at any one time-WHO.
new cases of malaria were reported,
and approximately 445,000 people
died of the disease - most of them Nation’s agencies, UNICEF and “Worse yet, after years of progress
children. WHO are working closely with other the most recent year-on-year trend
Progress on global malaria partners to achieve a world free of is pointing in the wrong direction.
control is slipping. The global malaria, ensuring that those most Renewed political commitment and
community was alerted in vulnerable to malaria receive the funding is a must if we are going to
November 2017 that malaria cases preventive and curative interventions beat malaria. Far too many children’s
are on the increase. Two United they need to stay healthy. lives are at stake,” said Peterson.

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