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The campaign brought together students, researchers and teacher-researchers as a prelude to the celebration of International Malaria Day celebrated every April 25 around the world. This year, the theme chosen is “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world”.
The overall objective of the campaign is to educate students about all aspects of malaria and share the institute’s research findings. This includes identifying the different disease vectors and means of prevention, reporting the epidemiology of malaria, describing the prevalence of malaria infections in Dzoumouna, presenting the link between malaria and sickle cell disease, reporting the treatment of malaria by plants.
The meeting was marked by communication sessions with several sub-themes: sickle cell anemia and malaria, malaria: vectors and prevention, epidemiology of malaria, positive diagnosis of malaria, current treatment of malaria. The lessons allowed students to benefit from knowledge on the definition of the disease, the species of parasites, the mode of transmission and prevention and the biological diagnosis of malaria.
To this end, the speakers gave the prevalence rate of malaria at the global level, in Africa and at the national level. According to the World Health Organization report, globally, 249 million cases of malaria were recorded in 2022, or 608,000 deaths.
In sub-Saharan Africa, 233 million, or 94%, cases of malaria with 580,000 deaths. As for Congo, malaria is endemic and remains the most important parasitic pathology. 522,266 cases of malaria were recorded in 2022 in all health structures in the country. “In the fight against malaria, remarkable therapeutic progress has been made. However, the battle is not yet won since malaria remains the leading cause of infant mortality. they declared. On the same occasion, they asked the community to respect preventive measures, to clean up the environment and to be consulted in health centers instead of practicing self-medication.
At the end of the screening, Russia Madg-Doung, a student at the law faculty, appreciated the initiative of the IRSSA in having organized the campaign on malaria, the first of its kind. The various communications allowed him to understand certain things ignored in practice such as the consequences of self-medication, the combined use of treatments based on medicinal plants and modern medicines. “Today I learned that the high infant mortality rate in our hospitals is due to malaria, he said, adding “I would like the awareness campaigns to be lasting so that we are informed about several diseases such as HIV-AIDS ».
