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?

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  • 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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