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A four-day campaign against malaria was launched in Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The mass drug campaign launched in Beni targets 450,000 people with anti-malarial drugs and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
the WHO reports that an outbreak of malaria cases threatens the health of the population in parts of the east of the country where health workers are also fighting an Ebola outbreak.
As the DRC The National Malaria Control Program and its partners are fighting to stop the spread of malaria as the burden of Ebola responders has increased. Reports indicate that up to 50% of people screened in Ebola treatment centers only have malaria.
according to WHO, DRC is the second-largest country in the world in terms of the number of malaria cases, after Nigeria, with 11% of the 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths from malaria in 2017.
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