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Friend, you may have heard about malaria in the headlines recently, with locally acquired cases identified in the United States for the first time in over twenty years. But malaria continues to be prevalent around the world—it’s one of the most common diseases Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats. Here’s what you need to know about this infection:
Malaria is the world’s most deadly parasite, and it infects over 200 million people around the world each year. Malaria spreads through infected mosquitos.
This disease is both preventable and treatable. Spraying homes and larvae breeding sites with insecticides and sleeping under bed nets are two of the most effective ways to prevent its spread. Antimalarial drug treatments can also be used to prevent infection among high-risk individuals for limited periods of time.
A two-drug treatment called artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) cures most infections in three days.
Last year, MSF treated over four million people for malaria. It’s one of the primary diseases that we treat, and we prioritize treating the most vulnerable.
Rainy seasons mean more mosquitos breed in water. In 2012, we piloted a program in Mali and Chad to combat these predictable yearly spikes in infection by administering preventative antimalarial medications to children, resulting in a 60-80 percent reduction in severe malaria cases.
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