{{Rwanda has made tremendous progress in malaria control and prevention with more than 75 % decline in malaria deaths and incidence between the years 2005 and 2011.}}
Progress against malaria is one of development’s most impressive stories across the country. For the last decade.
Earlier this week, Rwanda and Tanzania have been cited as examples in Africa in the fight against the killer disease malaria where there are over 200 million cases every year and a death rate of 25 percent-The Guardian reported.
An official with the United Nation Foundation’s grassroots’ campaign, Nothing but Nets, said this when he made a dire plea to the international community to focus its attention on the continent, where mosquito biting illness is endemic.
“Rwanda, Tanzania and Zanzibar all have very good health systems and have prioritize fighting and eradicating malaria there,” {Nothing But Nets} director Chris Helfrich said.
He added, “These examples are “proof that it can be done, this is not a disease we have to live with forever,” he said.
Consequently, “we can eliminate malaria across Africa and get to a place where the disease is eradicated,” Helfrich said.
In a recent interview with Xinhua at a time when the United Nations is rallying global efforts against malaria, Helfrich said, “Specifically, our work is being done in sub-Saharan Africa and the vast majority of sub- Saharan Africa is malaria endemic.”
Nothing But Nets tag line is “send a net and save a life” and asks people to contribute a monetary donation of at least $10 so the body can provide an insecticide net to a family and decrease the global death scale from this disease.
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