WHO: 665 Thousand People Died Due to Malaria

WHO: 665 Thousand People Died Due to MalariaBern - The World Health Organization, World Health Organization (WHO) says as many as 665 thousand people die due to malaria in 2010. Of this amount, as much as 86 percent are children under five years old.
As quoted by AFP on Wednesday (14.12.2011), the rate decreased by 5 percent compared to the year 2009.
Of the total deaths, Africa accounted for 91 percent and 81 percent from 216 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2010.
In the annual World Malaria Report 2011, WHO praised it as a 'major achievement' because that number has decreased as much as 26 percent of deaths in 2000. While the figure is still far from the 50 percent target reduction in mortality.
The UN health agency that has the purpose of eradicating malaria deaths by the end of 2015 and strives to reduce the number of deaths each year.
This year an international fund to combat malaria peaked at U.S. $ 2 billion. However, WHO estimates still need U.S. $ 5 billion through 2015 if it wants the target is reached.
To finance these, WHO recommends that each state entry tax can be set aside to fund the eradication of the disease. Including calling on other countries to set aside some income country to fight malaria.
"Like the tourist tax, may be used to raise funds for control programs in malaria-endemic countries," as in the report.
Director-General Margaret Chan welcomed the progress in the fight against malaria. But he also said the parasite resistance to drugs causing concern in some countries in Southeast Asia.
"Parasite resistance to antimalarial drugs is still a real and ever-present danger to our success," said Chan.
"There is an urgent need to develop a framework in Asia to ensure a sustained and coordinated action against a public health threat," he said.
According to WHO data, malaria is endemic in 106 countries. But are concentrated in 99 countries. Of the 99 countries, 43 of them recorded a decrease of more than 50 percent of cases between 2000 and 2010.
Six states reported having the highest mortality due to malaria or as much as 60 percent are Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Ivory Coast and Mali.
While in European countries in 2010 had 176 cases of malaria but no deaths were reported.


(Feb / did)