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Analyzing Challenges Facing Global Health Efforts to Eradicate Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analyzing Challenges Facing Global Health Efforts to Eradicate Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Video recordings
URI / Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/muislandora:3005
Geographic Subject
Sub-Saharan Africa
Created
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by one of the plasmodia species that breed in the female anopheles mosquito. Plasmodium falciparum is the most severe and prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the fact that Malaria is a preventable and curable disease, it is endemic in over 90 countries. According to the latest estimates in the World Malaria report of 2014, 198 million cases occurred globally in 2013, and the disease led to over 500,000 deaths. The report also estimated international and domestic funding for malaria control and elimination for 2013 to be $2.7 billion. Even though malaria is a global disease, the burden is heaviest in the African region where 90% of malaria deaths occur. Since 1955, global health organizations have doubled their efforts for funding, vaccine development and, research, in an effort to eradicate malaria. However, the efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa region have been met with challenges like vector control, the changing epidemiology of malaria, donor fatigue, concurrent management of malaria and other diseases, data reporting, cultural and health care worker shortage and many others problems. This presentation will summarize a review of published literature over the last 10 years on the challenges that global health efforts have, and continue to encounter in their attempts to eradicate malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. This presentation will conclude with recommendations for future research and identify efforts to overcome the challenges of eradicating Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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