Vaccines, Bed Nets, Preventive Treatment: How Burkina Faso Cut Malaria by 32% in One Year
Vaccines, Bed Nets, Preventive Treatment: How Burkina Faso Cut Malaria by 32% in One Year
The total number of malaria cases in the country dropped from 10,805,020 in 2024 to 7,329,278 in 2025, marking a sharp reversal of the trend observed between 2020 and 2024, Burkina Faso's Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Below are the measures that reversed the trend:
🟠Free malaria vaccination, extended to all 70 health districts since August 2025;
🟠A national campaign distributing nearly 15 million free insecticide-treated bed nets of the latest generation;
🟠Seasonal chemoprevention (administering a curative dose of antimalarial drugs) for five months during peak transmission season to nearly 4.9 million children under five;
🟠Intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women;
🟠Strengthening early diagnosis and improving case management.
Eliminating malaria in Burkina Faso by 2030 is now the government's stated goal.
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