"world malaria day" blog posts
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An update on our malaria work for World Malaria Day 2024
We’re using World Malaria Day to highlight our new part in the world’s ongoing efforts to eradicate malaria.
Posted on: 25 April 2024
Invest, Innovate and Implement – How LONGEVITY can help deliver ZERO malaria
World Malaria Day was established to provide education and understanding of malaria. Each year the Centre of Excellence for Long-acting Therapeutics (CELT) takes this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to revolutionising malaria prevention and control to reduce the malaria burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The theme this year is “Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement” – Three aspects that are critical to our strategy to reduce the malaria burden.
Posted on: 24 April 2023
Fighting on the front-line – Empowering communities to drive long-acting injectable innovation
The latest WHO World Malaria Report indicates that Africa carries a disproportionately high burden of malaria with 95% of malaria cases and 96% of malaria deaths occurring in this region with children under 5 accounted for about 80% of all malaria deaths on the continent. It is now more important than ever that more investment in innovation and implementation of more effective prevention strategies for low- and middle-income countries.
Posted on: 24 April 2023