Public health experts are unanimous: the fight against the coronavirus in Africa must not make us forget all the other fatal pathologies that strike the continent every year. “I am worried about the peak of malaria that will come with the rainy season (…). For seasonal malaria chemoprevention, we must administer the treatment four times to be effective: in some countries, we received only enough to make only one of the four passages necessary to fight against malaria " , testifies Mamady Traoré, referent center on infectious and tropical diseases on the MSF (Doctors Without Borders) website.
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This disruption in the distribution of malaria drugs or mosquito nets is not anecdotal. It could cause up to 769,000 deaths in 2020, twice as many as the figures recorded in the region in 2018. "This would amount to finding mortality rates due to malaria never seen before.
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