April 26 marks World Malaria Day
Today, GeoBert Herbal Center joins the world in recognizing the efforts being made to combat malaria and raise public awareness of the illness.
The accredited herbal center also calls on the government and individuals to Invest, Innovate and Implement the goals of delivering “zero malaria”;
as the epidemiological diversity of the disease poses numerous concerns to Ghana and the world at large.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) projected that there were 247 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2021, resulting in 619,000 fatalities.
Most of these deaths primarily affect children under five in the African region.
Malaria is endemic and persistent in Ghana, with marked seasonal fluctuations in the country's north. Malaria transmission in Ghana varies by geographic location, depending on the length of the dry season (December to March), when there is less transmission.
The southern and central sections of the nation have two separate rainy seasons, from April to June and September to November. The North, on the other hand, has a single rainy season that begins in May, peaks in August and lasts until September. There is a six to seven-month transmission season in the country's north and a shorter three to four-month transmission season in the country's upper north.
(Statistics from GHS, 2022)
Together, we can fight malaria to deliver the zero malaria agenda.
