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Malaria spins out of control in Burundi
Innocent Habonimana
12-14-2016
The Minister of Public Health, Josiane Nijimbere, has launched a campaign of distributing insecticide-treated mosquito-nets (ITN) to special groups like boarding schools, orphanages, military and police camps, refugee camps and the like.
The campaign endeavours to fight the malaria epidemic that is currently a serious health threat to the country. The Integrated National Programme against Malaria (PNILP), a specialised programme of the Ministry of Health, says the epidemic has alarmingly increased over the last three years.
F?licien Ndayizeye, Advisor within PNLIP, estimates that more than 3 000 of over 6 million registered malaria patients have died so far in 2016, while the death toll was 3799 in 2015, the highest number from 2000 according to 2016 WHO report. The number of registered malaria cases was over 5 million, says Ndayizeye...
Malaria spins out of control in Burundi
Innocent Habonimana
12-14-2016
The Minister of Public Health, Josiane Nijimbere, has launched a campaign of distributing insecticide-treated mosquito-nets (ITN) to special groups like boarding schools, orphanages, military and police camps, refugee camps and the like.
The campaign endeavours to fight the malaria epidemic that is currently a serious health threat to the country. The Integrated National Programme against Malaria (PNILP), a specialised programme of the Ministry of Health, says the epidemic has alarmingly increased over the last three years.
F?licien Ndayizeye, Advisor within PNLIP, estimates that more than 3 000 of over 6 million registered malaria patients have died so far in 2016, while the death toll was 3799 in 2015, the highest number from 2000 according to 2016 WHO report. The number of registered malaria cases was over 5 million, says Ndayizeye...