World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April and recognizes global efforts to control malaria.
History :
- World Malaria Day was established in May 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, WHO's decision-making body.
- The day was established to provide "education and understanding of malaria" and spread information on "year-long intensified implementation of national malaria-control strategies, including community-based activities for malaria prevention and treatment in endemic areas.
2016 Theme: “End Malaria For Good”.
It reflects the vision of a malaria-free world set out in the Global technical strategy for malaria 2016-2030.
Goals of the strategy are:
- Reduce rate of new malaria cases by at least 90% .
- Reduce malaria death rates by at least 90%.
- Eliminate malaria in at least 35 countries.
- Prevent a resurgence of malaria in all countries that are malaria-free.
Malaria :
- Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.
- Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches.
- In severe cases it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death.
- Symptoms usually begin ten to fifteen days after being bitten.
- If not properly treated, people may have recurrences of the disease months later.
- The disease is most commonly transmitted by an infected female Anopheles mosquito.
- The mosquito bite introduces the parasites from the mosquito's saliva into a person's blood.
- The parasites travel to the liver where they mature and reproduce.
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