AFRICA MALARIA DAY 2003

Africa Malaria Day 2003 Image Gallery

Angola:
Africa Malaria Day
Submitted by Jose Caetano, HIP, WHO Angola

Democratic Republic of the Congo:
Africa Malaria Day
Submitted by Jannes van der Wijk, Health adviser, ASRAMES

Djibouti :
Africa Malaria Day Commemoration in Djibouti
Submitted by Samar Ibrahim, WHO/EMRO

Kenya:
For every child Health, Education, Equality, Protection

Launch of ballons to symbolise 3000 children who die daily in Africa from malaria
Submitted by Victor Chinyama, Communication Officer,
UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office

Sindo, Suba District is located on the shore of Lake Victoria. It is one of the poorest districts in Kenya whose main income comes from fishing activities. It is an area with stable endemic malaria. The major malaria vectors include Anopheles gambiae s.s Giles, An. arabiensis Patton and An. funestus Giles. Malaria and HIV/AIDS are the two major diseases affecting this community and therefore are drawback to the welfare of these people.
Submitted by Leonita Sumba, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE - Kenya)

Sindo, Suba District - Western Kenya
Distribution of leaflets on basic information about malaria and its prevention.i.e Recognition of early symptoms of malaria, early diagnosis and effective treatment especially for pregnant women and children.
Submitted by Leonita Sumba, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE - Kenya)

Sindo, Suba District - Western Kenya
Live demonstration of mosquito biological stages (eggs, larvae, pupae and adult).
Submitted by Leonita Sumba, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE - Kenya)

Sindo, Suba District - Western Kenya
Demonstration of impregnation of nets with Deltamethrin (Power Tab)
Submitted by Leonita Sumba, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE - Kenya)

Sindo, Suba District - Western Kenya

Submitted by Leonita Sumba, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE - Kenya)

Sindo, Suba District - Western Kenya
Free parasitological screening/ diagnosis and treatment with Fansidar (Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine)
Submitted by Leonita Sumba, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE - Kenya)

Mali:
Africa Malaria Day Ceremonies in Bamaco, Mali

Morocco:
Africa Malaria Day Commemoration in Morocco
Submitted by Samar Ibrahim, WHO/EMRO

Mozambique:
RBM Partnership to Deal with Malaria in Complex Emergency Situations

A mosquito net behind them, (left-right) Felismino Mutitire sits on a bed with his son and his wife, Flora, who is breastfeeding their 18-month-old baby, in what remains of their home in the town of Chokwe in the southern part of the province of Gaza, one of the regions most severely affected by the flooding. Together with their two other children and their daughter-in-law, they spent three days on a rooftop with no food or safe water at the height of the flooding, followed by 10 days sheltering under trees. Home again, they are trying to reclaim their possessions and land from the mud. Their daughter-in-law has malaria and their 14-year-old daughter, Patiencia, spends her day fetching safe water from one of the few undamaged wells, several hours walking distance from their home.
© UNICEF/HQ00-0159/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

A boy toddler, sick with a fever from malaria, rests his head on his mother's lap, outside a health post set up in Sta. Carmela Church in the town of Chokwe in the southern part of the province of Gaza, one of the regions most severely affected by the flooding. The health post is run by the international NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres, which also distributes high-energy biscuits supplied by UNICEF.
© UNICEF/HQ00-0162/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

An unaccompanied boy, Seragio, who is sick with malaria, is interviewed by a woman social worker, who rests a hand on his forehead as he lies on a blanket in a tent, in a camp for some 40,000 people displaced by the recent flooding, near the town of Chacalane in the province of Gaza, one of the most severely affected regions. Seragio became separated from his family during the flooding. He thinks that his parents may be dead and does not know where his siblings are. Several unaccompanied children live together in a few tents in this camp. UNICEF is providing technical assistance to help reunite unaccompanied children with their families.

By mid-March 2000 in Mozambique, relief and rehabilitation efforts were well under way in response to the worst flooding in 50 years that hit the country in late February, affecting at least seven provinces, causing some 500 deaths and leaving more than 300,000 people homeless or without a livelihood. The extensive damage to agricultural land as well as to the transportation, water and sanitation and housing infrastructures also heightened the risk of malaria or cholera outbreak and required immediate food, health and water and sanitation assistance. Working with government ministries, other UN agencies and NGOs, UNICEF is coordinating the water and sanitation emergency response; supporting a vaccination campaign targeting tens of thousands of children and adults in the Limpopo River valley; providing essential drugs, oral rehydration salts (ORS) packets and educational materials; promoting community mobilization campaigns in health and hygiene to prevent the spread of disease; and supporting the rehabilitation of schools in affected areas.
© UNICEF/HQ00-0176/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

Nigeria:

In Nigeria, a woman sits on a bed next to her sleeping baby who is ill with malaria, in the paediatrics ward at Kaduna Hospital in Kaduna, capital of the northern state of the same name.
© UNICEF/HQ97-1148/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

South Africa:

3 April - the launch of the Race against Malaria Rally.

President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Race Against Malaria Rally, 3 April

Sudan :
Africa Malaria Day Commemoration in Sudan
Submitted by Samar Ibrahim, WHO/EMRO

Tanzania:

A three-year-old boy toddler, Doto, sick with malaria, sits on a table as he is examined by a woman doctor at a health centre in the village of Kibaha, 70 km west of Dar-es-Salaam, the capital. UNICEF provides vaccines, essential drugs and equipment.

In spite of significant gains in the previous two decades in the United Republic of Tanzania, a country of 32 million people, immunization rates for children under two years of age against the six vaccine-preventable childhood diseases declined to an average of 72 per cent by the year 2000. Malaria is the leading cause of child mortality and, combined with malnutrition, is a major cause of under-five morbidity.
© UNICEF/HQ00-0010/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

Uganda:
Africa Malaria Day Celebration 2003 in Yelekeni, Bedmot and Tecwaa
Submitted by Opio Lincoln

Zambia:
Ensuring Women and Children Sleep under Insecticide-Treated Nets

In Zambia, a woman health worker shows a new bednet to the community's malaria committee in a village outside the northern town of Mansa. The inexpensive, locally available bednets will be sold by members of the committee, who will also show villagers how to impregnate them with insecticide.
© UNICEF/HQ98-0922/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

In Zambia, a woman who just recovered from malaria breastfeeds her baby under a mosquito net at Mansa Hospital in the northern town of Mansa. Malaria is a principal cause of death in northern Zambia. Health workers teach villagers how to impregnate inexpensive, locally available bednets with insecticide.
© UNICEF/HQ98-0924/ GIACOMO PIROZZI

Last updated 25.07.2003