General Article World Malaria Report 2021 – A more accurate picture of the malaria burden in Africa

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Today, the World Health Organisation (WHO) published its annual World Malaria Report. The report shines a new light on the burden of malaria, using updated methodology to calculate the number of malaria deaths among children under five years of age. This new statistical method provides a much more precise cause-of-death estimate for young children for all diseases, including malaria, and is now being applied across the WHO.

The findings of the 2021 World Malaria Report are stark, revealing th...

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