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The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections globally over two years, according to a report from the World Health Organization published Thursday. Cases of the parasitic disease went up in 2020 and continued to climb in 2021, though at a slower pace, the U.N.
The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections
The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections globally over two years, according to a report from the World Health Organization published Thursday.
The treatment, developed over 30 years, is the first to give partial protection to children, WHO says.
Perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is newly formulated strategy endorsed in June 2022 by the World Health Organization and builds off the previously recommended but poorly implemented strategy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants – IPTi. IPTi – the provision of single dose Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) delivered through the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) at times of childhood immunisation at approximately 3, 4 and 9 months of age was shown to provide infants with protection against malaria, anaemia and all cause hospital admissions.