Local news media reported on Venezuela’s burden of malaria which was gathered from estimates published in the WHO’s 2020 World Malaria Report. The country’s contribution to malaria cases across the Americas is in the region of 53 percent (between 415,000 and 538,000 cases), with most ‘originating from mining activity in Bolívar’. As a result of Venezuela’s rising incidence, WHO Global Technical Strategy’s (GTS) ‘ambitious but achievable goals’ for control and elimination by 2030 are under threat. Read more
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