WHO / MALARIA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

The World Health Organization in the African region said that malaria is no longer the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa. WHO experts say that since 2000, malaria death rates have plunged by 66 percent, saving 6.2 million lives. FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:10
• Production Date: 22 August 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: AFRICA; HEALTH; MALARIA
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 1694577
• Parent Id: 1694577
• Alternate Title: unifeed160822d

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STORY: WHO / MALARIA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
TRT: 1:10
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

Shotlist

FILE – UNICEF- 09 APRIL 2010, MOZAMBIQUE

1. Med shot, a man carrying mosquito nets
2. Wide shot, people waiting in a line for their mosquito nets
3. Close up, bale containing nets being opened
4. Various shots, net distribution

FILE - APRIL 2014 – CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

5. Wide shot, women and children at a clinic
6. Med shot, taking a temperature of a child
7. Close up, taking a blood sample
8. Close up, blood test
9. Med shot, boy and malaria medicine
10. Med shot, doctor looking at a test result

FILE – UNICEF- 9 SEPTEMBER, 2015, CHIRADZULU DISTRICT, MALAWI

11. Various shots, mother getting her child immunized

FILE – UNICEF - 15 APRIL 2014, CHAD

12. Close up, boy carrying mosquito nets
13. Close up, tucking net under sleeping mat
16. Med shot, woman lying down under net

Storyline

All forty-seven World Health Organization (WHO) member states in the African Region unanimously adopted a new malaria framework for Africa, which proposes specific priority interventions and actions to reach “an African region free of malaria.”

WHO experts say that since 2000, malaria death rates have plunged by 66 percent, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority children, WHO said “malaria is no longer the leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa.”

According to the health agency, in 2015, two in three households in Africa had their own insecticide-treated mosquito net, compared to only 2 percent back in 2000 allowing more children to sleep under a net.

But despite the significant progress made, malaria continues to be a major health and development problem in the African region. According to WHO, globally, this region still bears the biggest malaria burden with approximately 190 million cases (89 percent of the global total) and 400 000 deaths (91 percent of the global total) in 2015 alone.

Some of the main challenges to tackle malaria they say, include gaps in access to available prevention methods, the limited number of interventions available and increasing resistance to medicines and insecticides.

To eliminate the disease from the African continent by 2030, and with a population at risk of malaria of about 830 million people, an estimated US$ 66 billion will be needed.