Why information remains the best weapon against malaria

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Malaria parasites cannot breed in mosquitoes. PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK

We are creating a hugely inflated burden of malaria through poor information, with knowledge gaps that are hurting us very badly indeed, as our malaria cases rise inexorably.

In 2010, we had fewer than one million confirmed malaria cases. In 2021, we had nearly four million. Yet we have poured funds into insecticide-treated bed nets, we have run malaria programmes and opted early into new vaccinations.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.