Slight concern in Amapa where cases of malaria have increased in several municipalities including Oiapoque, the border town with Guyana. Health authorities have just published a preliminary report which mentions a 6.7% increase compared to 2021.
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Published on July 26, 2022 at 3:31 p.m.,
updated on July 26, 2022 at 3:43 p.m.
The Environmental Monitoring Unit of the Superintendency of Sanitary Surveillance of Amapá (SVS-AP) alerts the federal government to the Map on this resurgence of malaria patients between May 2021 and May 2022. The number of cases fell from 735 cases to 784. Or 6.7% more in one year.
The greatest number of cases has been listed in the mining areas that are the municipalities of Calçoene, Porto Grande, Pedra Branca and Oiapoque. We have gone from 242 cases of malaria recorded in 2021, against 362 this year.
On the other hand in the native habitatsthe reduction in cases was very strong 88.89% fewer cases.
Health authorities have stepped up surveillance and prevention in critical areas.
Malakit, the solution to eradicate malaria from the region
In Guyana, the weekly epidemiological update of July 22 showed that the quasi-experimental Malakit project, which consists of distributing malaria self-diagnosis and self-treatment kits to clandestine gold miners in border areas after training, was working rather well. This has made it possible to contain this disease and even to accelerate the reduction in the incidence of malaria in the region by 42.9%.
Weekly epidemiological bulletin of Public Health France
Certainly, within the framework of cross-border cooperation, Malakit could make it possible to fight more effectively with populations who escape the usual health circuits and in particular illegal gold miners.
It should be remembered that France is committed to the elimination of malaria on its territory by 2025.