(Source: University of Pretoria) Back Empowering communities to beat malaria 17 November 2015 Malaria is a deadly, infectious disease with a complex life cycle. So complex in fact that after many years of research, scientists have still not been able to come up with a definitive solution to eradicate the disease completely. If one looks at the key global malaria facts, some shocking statistics highlight the seriousness of the situation. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) there were an estimated 214 million new cases of malaria, and approximately 438 000 people died of this preventable and treatable disease in 2014 alone. Fifteen countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa,...
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