Tuesday, August 02, 2022

After COVID, African countries vow to take the fight to malaria with $4 billion new funding

Good news! Compared to the hallucinated Climate Change alarmism, these are real and severe issues having affected billions of people for decades!

"More than US$4 billion of new funding has been pledged by African countries, international donors and pharmaceutical companies at an international summit held in Rwanda to end malaria and neglected tropical diseases. ...
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 20 diseases including dengue, leprosy, yaws and trypanosomiasis, which affect mostly the poorest people, including women and children. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 1.7 billion people worldwide are infected with at least one NTD each year. Until now, these diseases have received relatively little attention from funders. ...
Malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and NTDs have been on the rise in the past few years, largely because of disruptions in diagnosis and treatment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
At the same time, there was some encouraging news. “Even during the COVID pandemic, Bhutan and Sri Lanka remained malaria-free and several countries in southeast Asia remained on track towards malaria elimination" ...
Since 2015, the WHO has certified 9 countries as malaria-free, bringing the total to 40. ..."

After COVID, African countries vow to take the fight to malaria Donors pledge more than US$4 billion in renewed bid to cut new malaria cases by 90%.

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