Understanding Malaria in Bangladesh
True or False: Malaria is concentrated in 13 districts, specifically within the Chattogram Hill Tracts (Bandarban, Rangamati, and Khagrachhari).
True
What medication was banned in 1985 which caused a resurgence in Malaria?
1. R21 2. DDT 3. RTS,S 4. Abamectin
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)
This is an important preventive tool that was distributed in high-risk areas to reduce the risk of malaria transmission.
Insecticide-treated bed nets
USAID cuts have left higher or lower than 100k children in Bangladeshi refugee camps without adequate malaria surveillance?
Higher
The nation aims to completely eliminate malaria by (year).
2030
In the 1990s, there was an outbreak of malaria in Bangladesh that continued to get worse over the following years. Name ONE factor that could have influenced this, and (bonus) why specifically in 1990?
1. Changing climate, lack of malaria control programs, insecticide and current malaria treatment resistance, land use (more/less water), socioeconomic status,
2. (Bonus): DDT, drug resistance to chloroquine, or climate change (specifically rainfall)
Malaria related deaths dropped by this percentage after the implementation of the National Malaria Elimination Program between 2008 and 2022.
93%
Globally, malaria deaths were higher or lower than in 2023?
Higher