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Breaking News | Africa: Hope For A Malaria-Free Africa

guest column By Dr Abdourahmane Diallo, CEO of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria In recent decades, the world has made remarkable progress in the fight against malaria. Over 20 years of investment, commitment, and action have saved over 7.6 million lives and prevented over 1.5 billion malaria cases. We’ve discovered new ways of protecting ourselves from the deadly mosquito bite – with insecticide-treated mosquito nets, effective antimalarial treatments, and most recently promising new innovations such as gene drive and malaria vaccines bringing us one step closer to our goal of malaria eradication. And we’ve also seen that malaria elimination is a viable and worthy goal for countries around the world – no matter their size or geography. Since 2000, 24 countries have ended malaria, including Algeria, Paraguay, and Sri Lanka. In fact, more countries than ever before are today on the cusp of elimination.

Gomoa West: 656 Children Completes Malaria Vaccination

  About 656 children in the Gomoa West district of the central region of Ghana have completed all four doses of the malaria vaccine since the implementation of the malaria vaccination in 2019. Gomoa west district is one of the 42 selected areas with the pilot implementation exercise in the central region amidst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Denis Na-Ebong Soorimwin, Gomoa west district director of Ghana health service in an interview disclosed that the malaria vaccine in the district is so far not up to their expectation, because they want all eligible children in district to be vaccinated,, so the children will be protected against malaria.

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