Mozambique recorded 9.4 million cases of malaria in the first nine months of this year, a 20% increase compared to the same period in 2021, announced this Wednesday, November 23, the Minister of Health.
“In the first nine months of 2022 alone, 9.4 million cases of malaria were registered, against 7.8 million in the same period of 2021, which represents an increase of 20%,” said Armindo Tiago during a meeting on malaria control in Maputo.
According to the minister, the increase in the number of cases was due to the “inevitable impact of climate change” and the “worsening of environmental conditions that favored the multiplication of mosquitoes.
The Health Minister considered that the road to the elimination of malaria in Mozambique “is still long”, and warned about the strengthening of measures for the prevention of the disease in the current rainy season, which can increase the number of cases.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report of December 2021, Mozambique is one of six sub-Saharan African countries in which more than half of all malaria cases in the world are concentrated, with 4%. The others are Nigeria, with 27%, the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 12%, Uganda, with 5%, Angola, with 3.4%. and Burkina Faso, with 3.4%.
