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Gambia could become first sub-Saharan African country to eliminate malaria

Patrick Akpu by Patrick Akpu
July 12, 2017
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Gambia could become first sub-Saharan African country to eliminate malaria

Women and children in Kafuta village in The Gambia wait at the local health center to receive a long lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) to help prevent the transmission of malaria in their homes. With support from a Catholic Relief Services program, the mosquito nets are free. To date, CRS has distributed a total of 1.5 million LLINs to children under five, pregnant women and the greater population. In addition to mosquito net distributions, CRS trains leaders of extended families, or Kabilos, to share information throughout their community networks. More than 5,500 Kabilos have been trained to disseminate malaria prevention messages to 246,700 individuals. The messages have focused on encouraging the adoption of healthy activities, such as the regular use of LLINs, higher intermittent preventative treatment uptake and timely medical consultation upon the onset of symptoms. Widespread incorporation of these activities has contributed to the disease’s decline in the country, including the reduction of malaria-related morbidity in children under five from 4.0% in 2011 to 0.2% in 2014. This project is supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Experts say Gambia could become the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate malaria on its track record of combating the mosquito-borne disease.

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The prevalence of the malaria parasite in children under five has plunged to 0.2 per cent from four per cent in 2011, according to the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP).

NMCP data shows that the total number of new malaria cases across the West African nation has fallen by about 40 per cent in that time, to 155,450 in 2016 down from 262,000 in 2011.

Head of NMCP Balla Kandeh, said Gambia is aiming to achieve the milestone of having no new malaria cases by 2020, but donor fatigue is a concern with a funding gap of over 25 million dollars.

“This last mile is the most difficult, we need more support to sustain the gains we have made yet donors often turn their attention elsewhere as cases drop,” he said.

Kandeh said that malaria rates in Gambia may rebound if more funding is not secured soon.

He hoped that Gambia’s new leadership under President Adama Barrow, who won a December election to bring an end to 22 years of autocratic rule under Yahya Jammeh, will attract back donors after many left during the previous regime.

“There is a better working environment under Barrow, with less constraints and less political uncertainty,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“The fear of the unknown has gone.”

According to Carla Fajardo of aid agency Catholic Relief Services, aside from the usual control measures, such as antimalarial drugs, insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor spraying, Gambia has successfully used technology to tackle malaria.
Fajardo said tablets, online platforms and GPS have been used to track delivery of the above strategies, with real-time data enabling decisions to be made on the fly, while internet service providers have boosted bandwidth in remote areas.

WHO say the world has made huge strides against malaria since 2000, with death rates plunging by 60 percent and at least six million lives saved globally.

The UN said efforts to end one of the world’s deadliest diseases, which kills about 430,000 people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa, are under threat as mosquitoes become increasingly resistant to measures such as bed nets and drugs.

Source: Reuters/NAN

 

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