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Transmitted to humans through the bites of Anopheles mosquitoes, malaria is a potentially fatal disease. In 2021, the estimated number of deaths attributable to malaria was 619,000, according to the WHO; a balance sheet higher than the pre-pandemic period. 96% of fatal cases have been recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. Four countries alone share more than half of this tribute: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger and Tanzania.
The parasitic disease is particularly dangerous for children, since children under 5 account for 80% of all deaths. Where are the vaccination programs against malaria? Is the financing of the fight up to the health challenge? How to improve prevention?
- Professor Stéphane Jaugebury, infectiologist and head of the infectious and tropical diseases department, AP-HP at the University Hospital of Bicêtre in Kremlin-Bicêtre in the Paris region.
- Per Marielle Bouyou, Professor of Parasitology Mycology, Head of the Department of Basic Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Health Sciences of Libreville in Gabon
At the end of the show, we take stock of the 70th edition of World Leprosy Day which is held on the weekends of January 27, 28 and 29. We talk about it with the Dr. Bertrand Cauchois, medical adviser to the Raoul Follereau Foundation on mission in Madagascar and Chad.