Malaria can be eradicated within a generation, say global health experts in a report which contradicts last month’s conclusions of a WHO-led review
A public health worker takes a blood sample from a woman to be tested for malaria in Bo Rai district, Trat provice, Thailand, November 29, 2017.
To meet that target, however, governments, scientists and public health leaders need to inject more money and innovation into fighting the disease and the mosquitoes that carry it, the report said – something that will require "ambition, commitment and partnership like never before". The Lancet Commission's view comes a few weeks after the WHO published its own report on whether malaria can be wiped out, concluding that eradication cannot be achieved any time soon, and that setting unrealistic goals with unknown costs and endpoints could lead to "frustration and backlashes".
Malaria infected about 219 million people in 2017 and killed around 435,000 of them – the vast majority babies and children in the poorest parts of Africa.
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