Africa’s 1.5 billion people accounted for 95% of an estimated 597,000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the World Health Organisation. Health workers in the three African nations ...

Around 90% of the world’s approximately 440 000 annual malaria deaths occur in Africa. South Africa has less than 10 000 notified cases of malaria per year, and the National Department of Health is ...

As clouds gather and humidity rises across West Africa, whose annual rains bring ... to 30 percent of the world’s annual 600,000 malaria deaths — clinics that once served 300 people a day ...

The WHO’s 2024 Malaria Report further reveals that 579,414 malaria-related deaths were reported, with Africa shouldering a staggering 97 per cent of global fatalities. Alarmingly, children under ...

WHEN PAULINE OTIENO’S second child caught malaria ... could avert 170,000 deaths, save families money on hospital bills and free up resources to fight other illnesses. Chart: The Economist ...

The reduction in aid restricts healthcare services and threatens to reverse decades of health progress on the continent ...

is also the most common in Africa and is responsible for the majority of malaria-related deaths worldwide. Malaria is a serious disease that can land you in hospital and, in severe cases ...

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa ... of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed. In Nigeria -- home to 30 percent of the ...

All seven people diagnosed with the disease this year had visited Africa before falling ill, Lee said. In 2023, there were an estimated 263 million cases of malaria and 597,000 deaths globally, with ...

In Africa, home to more than 95 percent of the world's 627,000 malaria deaths in 2020, the parasite is mostly spread in rural areas preferred by the dominant Anopheles gambiae group of mosquitoes.

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring ... home to 30 percent of the world's annual 600,000 malaria deaths -- clinics that once served 300 people a ...

"From tackling malaria ... of death before age five is 80 times higher in the highest-mortality country than the lowest-mortality country, for example, while a child born in sub-Saharan Africa ...