Helping others is important!

1. Done by:
Wilson Yap
Samuel Pang
Seah Yi Le
Zhen Xiang

2.  Malaria is a mosquito-borne
infectious disease of humans
and other animals caused by a
parasite called Plasmodium.
 It begins with a bite from an
infected female
mosquito, which introduces
the parasite via its saliva into
the circulatory system. The
parasite then reproduces
Parasites within the red blood
reproducing cells, eventually causing them
inside a red blood Ruptured Red blood to rupture.
cell cells

3.  Blood films, whereby blood
samples are collected from the
patient and inspected under the
microscope.
For areas where microscopy is not
available, there are commercial
antigen detection tests that require
only a drop of blood. These tests
use finger-stick or venous
blood, the completed test takes a
total of 15–20 minutes, and the
results are read visually as the
presence or absence of coloured
stripes on the dipstick, so they are
suitable for use in the field.

4.  Generally, Malaria is most
commonly found in South
Africa, as it has a high
temperature, humidity and
rainfall all year round.
 This is because the most
common malaria-causing
parasite, Plasmodium
falciparum (which causes
severe malaria) cannot
complete its growth cycle in
the Anopheles mosquito at
temperatures below 20°C
and thus cannot be
transmitted.

5. "World Malaria Day" was
established and approved at the 60th
World Health Assembly (WHA) in
March 2007. It replaced "Africa
Malaria Day" which was
commemorated every year since
2001 on 25 April. The purpose of the
day is to raise awareness of malaria
as a disease that is preventable and
treatable and to mobilize
communities across the world to get
involved in the fight against it.
In 2008 the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership unveiled the Global Malaria Action
Plan (GMAP), which sets out what needs to be achieved to meet the short, medium and
long term goals of malaria control, elimination and eventual eradication. In 2008 the
Partnership kick-started it’s "Counting malaria out" campaign. This two-year campaign
is intensifying global efforts to reach the first important malaria milestone by 2010 -
universal coverage for all populations at risk with locally appropriate interventions for
prevention and case management, and a reduction in the number of malaria cases and
deaths by 50%.
The campaign and GMAP therefore call on all malaria endemic countries, RBM partners
and donors to put extra efforts into comprehensively tracking progress in malaria
prevention and treatment along the path to near-zero deaths by 2015 and the gradual
elimination of malaria.

6. Done by:
 Wilson Yap
 Samuel Pang
 Seah Yi Le
 Zhen Xiang