This week we’re looking at how to keep fighting malaria amid Covid and climate change.LUANDA, ANGOLA - JANUARY 27, 2020: A woman, suffering from malaria, rests on her family's bed inside the Povoado slum in Luanda. | Luke Dray/Getty ImagesThe pandemic and climate change are complicating the fight against malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that’s one of the world’s biggest killers – particularly of children.
What’s clear is that the fight will have to keep shifting, said Raj Panjabi, the coordinator for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative.Shortly after the coronavirus began to spread, the World Health Organization warned that pandemic-related disruptions to care could double malaria’s death toll in 2020. That nightmare scenario didn’t happen, though it will take time to untangle how many more malaria deaths the pandemic did cause.
SAN JUAN TALPA, EL SALVADOR - APRIL 27, 2021: A cart pulled by bulls in the streets of San Juan Talpa in El Salvador, which was declared free of malaria this year. | Fred Ramos/Getty ImagesThe U.S. malaria initiative is slated to lay out a new strategy by the fall on how to protect the progress that has been made against the disease while pushing ahead with elimination efforts. Algeria, Argentina, El Salvador, Paraguay and Uzbekistan were declared malaria-free most recently.
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