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Transmitted to humans through the bites of Anopheles mosquitoes, malaria is a potentially fatal disease. In 2021, the estimated number of deaths attributable to malaria was 619,000, according to the WHO; a balance sheet higher than the pre-pandemic period. 96% of fatal cases have been recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. Four countries alone share more than half of this tribute: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger and Tanzania.
The parasitic disease is particularly dangerous for children, since children under 5 account for 80% of all deaths. Where are the vaccination programs once morest malaria? Is the financing of the fight up to the health challenge? How to improve prevention?
- Professor Stéphane Jaugebury, infectiologist and head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, AP-HP at theBicêtre University Hospital at the Kremlin-Bicêtre in the Paris region.
At the end of the show, we take stock of the 70th edition of World Leprosy Day which is held on the weekend of January 27, 28 and 29, 2023. We talk regarding it with the Dr. Bertrand Cauchois, medical adviser to Raoul Follereau Foundation on mission in Madagascar and Chad.
