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http://america.infobae.com/notas/49009-Cada-segundo-muere-un-nino-por-malaria
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12/04/24 | SOCIETY
Every second a child dies from Malaria
"It's a monumental tragedy , "said Ban Ki-moon from the United Nations. " There is no excuse for not intervening. " Investment to combat malaria is minimal. Wednesday is the global day of the disease
More than 1,400 children die each day worldwide due to malaria , a disease transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles . So United Nations calls the situation a "monumental tragedy "are lives could be saved with the international interest.
The fact that the disease impinges especially in children is because their immune system is "weaker" compared to adults, who probably have been bitten several times by the mosquito that causes malaria, but have established at the end a natural immunity.
Malaria is caused by infection with the parasite Plasmodium , transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles . Those affected by the disease suffer a high fever and intense and strong shudders , as if they were cold.
For the development of malaria are needed more than 50 bites per year by an infected mosquito, which inoculates a number of plasmodia that reproduce in the liver and red blood cells parasitized subject.
Of the approximately 3,000 million people living in some of the 103 endemic countries , 243 million annually develop malaria symptomatic and of these , 860,000 will die , the 80% of children in sub-Saharan Africa.
On the eve of World Malaria Day, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deemed unacceptably high mortality from this disease.
"It remains a monumental tragedy that every second a child dies from malaria, but we can see some hope in the many lives that have been saved by international intervention," Ban said in his message.
The Secretary General noted that the proof that something can be done has been in previous years. Since 2000, rates of mortality from malaria have fallen more than 25% worldwide and over 33% in Africa. "These efforts have saved more than a million lives, said Ban Ki-mon.
For the United Nations, the goal is to reach "zero deaths from malaria" in 2017. Ban stressed that "in this world of abundance there is no excuse to intervene and invest wisely , "for a rapid diagnostic test costs about 50 cents, the drugs against malaria around one U.S. dollar and a mosquito net for several children with a duration of three years about five dollars.
The UN secretary general called for to cover the entire funding of 3,2 million dollars needed to achieve and maintain universal coverage in Africa.
Spanish-English translation
12/04/24 | SOCIETY
Every second a child dies from Malaria
"It's a monumental tragedy , "said Ban Ki-moon from the United Nations. " There is no excuse for not intervening. " Investment to combat malaria is minimal. Wednesday is the global day of the disease
More than 1,400 children die each day worldwide due to malaria , a disease transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles . So United Nations calls the situation a "monumental tragedy "are lives could be saved with the international interest.
The fact that the disease impinges especially in children is because their immune system is "weaker" compared to adults, who probably have been bitten several times by the mosquito that causes malaria, but have established at the end a natural immunity.
Malaria is caused by infection with the parasite Plasmodium , transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles . Those affected by the disease suffer a high fever and intense and strong shudders , as if they were cold.
For the development of malaria are needed more than 50 bites per year by an infected mosquito, which inoculates a number of plasmodia that reproduce in the liver and red blood cells parasitized subject.
Of the approximately 3,000 million people living in some of the 103 endemic countries , 243 million annually develop malaria symptomatic and of these , 860,000 will die , the 80% of children in sub-Saharan Africa.
On the eve of World Malaria Day, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deemed unacceptably high mortality from this disease.
"It remains a monumental tragedy that every second a child dies from malaria, but we can see some hope in the many lives that have been saved by international intervention," Ban said in his message.
The Secretary General noted that the proof that something can be done has been in previous years. Since 2000, rates of mortality from malaria have fallen more than 25% worldwide and over 33% in Africa. "These efforts have saved more than a million lives, said Ban Ki-mon.
For the United Nations, the goal is to reach "zero deaths from malaria" in 2017. Ban stressed that "in this world of abundance there is no excuse to intervene and invest wisely , "for a rapid diagnostic test costs about 50 cents, the drugs against malaria around one U.S. dollar and a mosquito net for several children with a duration of three years about five dollars.
The UN secretary general called for to cover the entire funding of 3,2 million dollars needed to achieve and maintain universal coverage in Africa.