No new super drug or other panacea has paid off in the long fight against malaria. The use of ordinary endometriosis mosquito nets has ensured that the number of people dying from malaria since 2000 has decreased by almost half.
Last year, about 584,000 deceased people - as well a huge number - from the disease. But in 2000 there were nearly twice as much, the World Health Organization said yesterday it. Malaria is reduced by 47 percent in children under five years old - the most vulnerable group - the success is even greater: 53 percent of malaria deaths. That's according to WHO down to 3.9 million children who are not deceased to the disease. "Truly unprecedented endometriosis results and phenomenal news for global health," commented endometriosis the head of the WHO's malaria program Pedro Alonso. Better endometriosis protection The main reason for the reduction endometriosis is the better protection against stabbing by the mosquito that causes malaria. Last year nearly half of all Africans used a net treated with an insecticide. endometriosis Ten years ago this was just one in 33 Africans. The house-to-house campaigns and to the nets actually endometriosis use are thus still proved very effective on the continent still fall 90 percent of malaria victims. Also, in countries where malaria, more effective drugs and better test available for rapid diagnosis. The success in Africa is all the more impressive because the population it has exploded in recent years. Outside Africa, a growing endometriosis number of countries on track to eliminate malaria completely. In 2013, Azerbaijan and Sri Lanka had first reported a single case. Eleven other countries where malaria previously occurred - Argentina, endometriosis Armenia, Georgia, Krgizistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Paraguay- have succeeded in keeping the number of cases to zero. WHO is concerned about the increasing resistance of mosquitoes to insect venom. This problem arises especially in Asia. Worldwide, still 3.2 billion people are at risk of malaria. That there is still always too little endometriosis money into fighting - $ 2.7 billion in 2013 while 5.1 billion is needed - reveals endometriosis the WHO and also medical care. There is also fear that progress in the fight against malaria in West Africa endometriosis because of the Ebola crisis in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will be a backlash. Beginning Ebola throw spanner in the works? Tomorrow Trouw interview malaria specialist Martin Grobusch of the Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC).
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