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World Malaria Day: from prevention to research
The mosquito net remains the most effective method to prevent malaria.
(Drawing).
AFP/ALEXANDER JOE
By: Igor Strauss
1 min
On the occasion of World Malaria Day, we are taking stock of this infectious parasitic disease.
Transmitted to humans through mosquito bites, malaria is a potentially fatal disease that caused 409,000 deaths in 2019, 94% of them in Africa.
After a significant setback over the past ten years, progress in the fight against malaria has stalled.
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How to pursue prevention?
What are the effective treatments?
What are the advances in research?
Pr Olivier Bouchaud,
Head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department at
the Avicenne University Hospital in Bobigny
in the Paris region and President of the
Association for Reception of Doctors and Health Personnel Refugees
in France
Mokobé,
the rapper of the group 113 contracted cerebral malaria and ended up in a coma
Dr Matthieu Coldiron,
medical epidemiologist at Epicenter, a research unit linked to
Médecins Sans Frontières
.
He is based in New York in the United States of America.
Pr Jean-Chrysostome
Gody,
Director and Pediatrician at the Bangui Pediatric Complex in CAR
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