And there are 20 %
fewer deaths from Malaria now than ten years ago.
Not exact matches
Globally, four million (4.02 million)
fewer child
deaths occurred in 2015 than in 2000, mainly thanks to reductions in
deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea,
death during birth,
malaria and measles.
I recently recalled that little girl and countless other children saved
from certain
death by chloroquine because I was reading about 80 U.S. Marines struck with falciparum
malaria a
few weeks after deploying to Liberia in August 2003.
Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and
death from malaria — there were 16 %
fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.
«Increased ITN coverage in Kenya has resulted in 44 per cent
fewer deaths in children, and increases in the birth weight of babies, according to preliminary data
from the
Malaria Control Department of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, announced at a meeting in Nairobi last week (16 August).»