January 1, 2021 Village health team (VHT) volunteers demonstrate how to properly hang a mosquito net
Through integrating services, increased advocacy, and messaging for both COVID-19 and malaria, Uganda has managed to avert the projected doubling of deaths due to malaria in 2020.
Malaria is a leading cause of death in Uganda. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) World Malaria report, in 2019 Uganda accounted for three per cent of global malaria deaths. In April, the WHO projected in a modeling analysis double malaria deaths and a 22 per cent increase in infections across sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 due to severe disruptions to insecticide-treated net campaigns and lack of access to antimalarial medicines