The Fight Against Malaria

The heat of the sun burning against malaria is furious on the sand. Flies and mosquitoes wandered through the air, and the voices of the children suffering were filled with the atmosphere. This is sub-Saharan Africa, and the painful children's noise is due to fatal parasitic diseases, malaria. About 1 million people die each year (healthy world). Fortunately, this disease has been eliminated in America by various techniques. They used DDT in areas where malaria is known to occur in the coming years.

Every year on April 25, the world recognizes the ongoing global fight against malaria. Malaria is a mosquito-borne illness and about half of the world's population is at risk of shrinkage. Even last year alone, there were about 214 million new malaria infections. From the right perspective, the number of new malaria patients in 2015 is above the Brazilian population. According to the World Malaria Report of the World Health Organization (WHO) 2015, malaria causes deaths of about 438,000 people, 90% of which occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. But there are some good news: it can stop malaria

If we have a place where we can use Quick Start, it is in the fight against malaria. Every year, over 200,000 people, more than 200 million people die from this disease. Most of them are in Africa. Our best new drug for it is to lose the ground; parasitic parasites develop resistance too early. An effective vaccine has not been announced yet. The direct cost of treating this disease is estimated at $ 12 billion, the economies of the affected countries are down 1.3% per year, which is quite significant.

Artemisinin has been proved to be a turning point for fight against malaria and it is the key to China's domestic success: In the 1970s, China reported nearly 25 million cases of malaria, and today China is almost It completely eradicates this disease. The majority of the cases still found in the country are imported from abroad, especially in the countries of the large Mekong region (97.7% in 2014). Government support was always very important in this success. In 2010, we set the goal of eradicating malaria in China by 2020. Countries' strategies and goals help to ensure the commitment of each agency and all levels of officials are responsible for achieving concrete results. The government has continued to increase funding for the treatment and prevention of malaria over the years, providing free antimalarials to patients and providing guaranteed funds for antimalarial pilot projects.