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On the occasion of World Malaria Day, we are taking stock of this infectious parasitic disease. Transmitted to humans through mosquito bites, malaria is a potentially fatal disease that caused 409,000 deaths in 2019, 94% of them in Africa. After a significant setback over the past ten years, progress in the fight against malaria has stalled.
How to pursue prevention? What are the effective treatments? What are the advances in research?
- Prof. Olivier Bouchaud, Head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Service at the Avicenne University Hospital in Bobigny in the Paris region and President of theWelcoming Association for Refugee Doctors and Health Personnel in France
- Mokobé, the 113 rapper contracted cerebral malaria and ended up in a coma
- Dr Matthieu Coldiron, medical epidemiologist at Epicenter, a research unit linked to Doctors Without Borders. He is based in New York in the United States of America.
- Professor Jean-Chrysostome Mating, director and pediatrician at the Bangui Pediatric Complex in CAR.