#FIGHTFORWHATCOUNTS By Michael Joos, CEO, Vestergaard LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Apr 25, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - World Malaria Day provides us with a moment to reflect on the scale of the challenge we still face - and recognise what needs to happen to fix it. Make no mistake, great strides have been made. El Salvador and China were certified malaria free in 2021. However, most countries with a high burden of the disease have suffered setback and are losing ground. How can we be satisfied, when 627,000 people died in 2021, from what is a curable disease? More than two thirds of those deaths were among children under the age of 5 living in the African Region. This human tragedy, devastating millions of families, is impossible to comprehend. But the socio-economic impact however is calculable, and it is immense. The global response to the COVID crisis proved that when the global economy is threatened, we can summon the power to overcome a disease which emerged almost overnight. So, why can't we solve, rather than manage, a curable disease that we have lived with for far too long? Simply, it requires us to strain every sinew in our collective global health-body, to move in the same directi...