LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Apr 25, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - 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.When a community is equipped with effective insecticidal bed nets, it not only protects the individual family, but it also reduces the vector population in that community. [Vestergaard]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...