Transmitted to humans by the bites of female Anopheles mosquitoes, malaria was responsible for 608,000 deaths in 2022: the African region is the most affected, with 94% of malaria cases recorded. Children under five are particularly affected by this infection and represent 80% of deaths.
What are the existing treatments? How to prevent this disease? Where are we with vaccination, when there are today 2 vaccines recommended by the WHO for children living in endemic areas?
- Pr Nicolas Vignierinfectious disease specialist atAvicenna hospital in Bobigny and lecturer at the Sorbonne Paris Nord University
- Professor Hervé Menan, Professor of parasitology and mycology, head of the department of parasitology and mycology at the UFR of pharmaceutical and biological sciences of the Félix Houphouët Boigny University in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, Vice-President of the African Society of Parasitology and director of CeDReS (Center for Diagnostics and Research on AIDS and other infectious diseases)
► At the end of the broadcast, we take stock with Doctors Without Borderswhich warns about the age of war wounded in Sudan and more precisely in the hospital in the south of Khartoum where 16% of the war wounded are under 15 years old. Interview with Claire San Filippoemergency coordinator for Sudan at Médecins Sans Frontières.
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► to hold – Case
► Sidiki Diabate, Wally Seck – Assurance
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