WHO announced that R360 000 children a year in three African countries will receive the world's first Malaria vaccine.
“In South Africa, we have seen a 73% decrease in the number of Malaria cases between 2000 and 2018. In the year 2000, we had about 64 000 cases of Malaria in South Africa that were diagnosed and if you fast-forward to 2018, that number has decreased to just over 17 000. And the same with Malaria deaths, we’ve decreased deaths by 74% between 2000 and 2018.”
However, Senior Scientist at the NICD, Dr Jaishree Raman, says the country has ways of decreasing the rate of transmission.
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