Malaria
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Malaria is spread to humans through mosquito bites © iStock / RolfAasa
By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
Transmitted to humans by mosquito bites, malaria is a potentially fatal disease, which caused 405,000 deaths in 2018, 94% of which were in Africa.
As the continent also faces the Covid-19 pandemic, which is straining already fragile health systems, the WHO is concerned about an upsurge 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?
Prof. Olivier Bouchaud
, Head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Service
at the Avicenne University Hospital in Bobigny in the Paris region
.
And President of the
Association for the Reception of Doctors and Health Personnel Refugees in France
Dr Gloria BERGES DAMOALIGA
, general practitioner and head of the emergency department and general medicine of the
SCHIPHRA hospital
in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso
At the end of the program, we come back to a study concerning the yellow fever vaccine, and show that a divided dose protects against the disease, while the question of the shortage of this vaccine regularly arises.
We talk about it with
Rebecca Grais,
research director at
Epicenter for MSF.
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