Malaria

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Malaria is a potentially fatal disease, which caused 405,000 deaths in 2018, 94% of which in Africa. iStock / RolfAasa

By: Igor Strauss

Transmitted to humans, by mosquito bites, malaria is a potentially fatal disease, which caused 405,000 deaths in 2018, 94% of which in Africa. While the continent is also facing the covid-19 pandemic, which is testing already fragile health systems, WHO is worried about an increase in malaria cases. The number of deaths could even double in 2020, which would represent a return to the mortality rates observed 20 years ago.

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How to continue prevention? What are the effective treatments? What are the advances in research?

  • Dr Doudou Sène, public health doctor and Coordinator of the national malaria control program in Senegal
  • Dr Michel Cot , medical epidemiologist, director of research at the IRD.
  • Pr Hervé Menan , professor of parasitology and mycology, head of the department of parasitology and mycology at the UFR of pharmaceutical and biological sciences of the University Félix Houphouët Boigny in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, vice-president of the African society of parasitology and director of CeDReS (Center for Diagnosis and Research on AIDS and other infectious diseases)

At the end of the program, we offer you a relaxation session with Dr Adrian Chaboche , psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, co-founder of the Vitruve center in Paris.

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