More research needed to end malaria

Progress against malaria elimination is uneven across the world.

This is very much evident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where cases continue to be on the rise and, together with Nigeria, account for 40 percent of deaths from the disease.

Could it be that interventions aren’t that effective, given the rising cases of mosquitoes developing resistance against insecticides, or is it a matter of lack of access to the different preventive interventions available?

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