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Mozambique: Christian Charity Promises Support Against Malaria
16 Oct 2023
AllAfrica.com
The president and chief executive officer of the US-based
Christian charity, World Vision International, Dean Hirsch, has promised that
his organisation will step up its support for the fight against malaria in
Mozambique, to reduce the high mortality from the disease.
Hirsch was speaking to reporters on Thursday, after an
audience granted by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza.
"In World Vision, we are not only concerned with
children and their education and health", he said, "but we are also concerned
with the question of malaria".
He stressed that efforts are under way to ensure that every
Mozambican child sleeps under a bed net, to prevent them from being bitten by
the anopheles mosquito, which carries the malaria parasite.
Malaria remains the single most important cause of death in Mozambique. 30
per cent of all deaths in Mozambican hospitals are caused by malaria. The
disease is also responsible for 35 per cent of deaths among children under the
age of five, and 60 per cent of children in Mozambique's paediatric wards are
suffering from malaria.
World Vision says it has so far distributed 100,000 mosquito
nets in Mozambique, and it
plans to distribute many more in Mozambique and in other southern
African countries. It also intends to support home spraying programmes against
mosquitos.
Hirsch said that during the audience he congratulated
Guebuza for his concern with children, and for the good governance of Mozambique.
Hirsch is in Mozambique
for celebrations marking the silver jubilee (25th anniversary) of World Vision.
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