The WHO has piloted a new malaria vaccine programme in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.LONDON - Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven"very sharp" rises in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25.
In Malawi, Cyclone Freddy in March triggered six months' worth of rainfall in six days, causing cases there to spike too, Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, told AFP in an interview. "So you have these extreme weather events, whether flooding in Pakistan, or the cyclone in Malawi, leaving lots of stagnant water around the place.
"If malaria is going to be made worse by climate change, we need to act now to push it back and where we can eliminate it," he said.
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