Fighting the alarming emerging of malaria cases in highland area of Ethiopia: an agenda for action in Tigray

Aregawi BB and Meles HN

Published on: 2024-04-25

Abstract

Malaria is one of the major infectious tropical diseases with substantial socio-economic repercussions in the sub-Saharan African region. Despite intensive efforts and remarkable progress that over several decades successfully cut by half the world’s malaria burden, in recent years' progress has hindered and appears to be overturning due to different reasons in different countries of the world. Estimates for 2021 were 247 million infections and 619,000 deaths, confirming malaria’s ongoing threat to public health and productivity [1]. Of greatest concern are infections with Plasmodium falciparum, which comprise 90% of cases and may be lethal, though geographically widespread Plasmodium vivax also causes significant morbidity [1].