R-Evolution Worldwide Community Interest Company participated as observer to the 15th WHO meeting of the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC). The meeting highlighted how in the last couple of years the malaria incidence stopped to decrease and begun to increase, especially in the 10 countries with the highest burden of malaria. According to the World malaria report 2018, indeed, there were 219 million cases of the disease in 2017, compared to 217 million the year before. Every two minutes, a child dies of malaria. In 2017, the estimated global tally of malaria deaths stood at 435.000. All the 10 countries with the highest malaria burden are in Africa: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania.

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