Southern African Development Community E8 ambassador Richard Kamwi has pleaded with the World Health Assembly to consider putting more resources into domestic funding for malaria to be eliminated in the region by 2030."Malaria has bounced back, with hundreds of cases being recorded. Malaria is killing Namibians, and for a disease that we should have already eliminated, we are not doing well," he said.
"We established this initiative called E8 in 2009 in Windhoek with an intended objective for at least four frontline member states of Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia and South Africa to eliminate malaria by 2020, to be followed by second-line member states by 2030, all through strengthening border collaboration," said the medical physician.
Out of these, Andra district reported more than half-67% of the cases from January to the 3rd week of May 2024 and five deaths were reported, of which two are from Andara district.